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These are features that you would most like to see included in future releases of Backdrop CMS.  All the issues you see here are issues tagged with the label "type - feature request" from the Backdrop CMS core issue queue. 

# GitHub Issue title Issue # Vote for this feature # of votes
1 [META] Automatic Updates #2018 17
2 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 15
3 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 13
4 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
5 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
6 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 6
7 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
8 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
9 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 5
10 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 5
11 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 5
12 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
13 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 5
14 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
15 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
16 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 3
17 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
18 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 3
19 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
20 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
21 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
22 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
23 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
24 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
25 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
26 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
27 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
28 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
29 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
30 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 2
31 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 2
32 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 2
33 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
34 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
35 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
36 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
37 Required revision messages #4302 2
38 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
39 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
40 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
41 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
42 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
43 Make some block settings global #3805 1
44 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404 1
45 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
46 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
47 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
48 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
49 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
50 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
51 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
52 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
53 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
54 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
55 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
56 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
57 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
58 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
59 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
60 I don't want default content #5587 1
61 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
62 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
63 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
64 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
65 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
66 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
67 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
68 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
69 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
70 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
71 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
72 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
73 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
74 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
75 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
76 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
77 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
78 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
79 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
80 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
81 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
82 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
83 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
84 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
85 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
86 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
87 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
88 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
89 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
90 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
91 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
92 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
93 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
94 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
95 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
96 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
97 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
98 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
99 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
100 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075

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