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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 Field group functionality in core #647 17
2 [META] Automatic Updates #2018 16
3 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 14
4 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 13
5 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 13
6 Add option to globally disable comments on a content type. #3016 12
7 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 10
8 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
9 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 7
10 Add a site architecture report #4691 6
11 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
12 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
13 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
14 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 5
15 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
16 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
17 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 4
18 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 4
19 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
20 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
21 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
22 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
23 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 3
24 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
25 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
26 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
27 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
28 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
29 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
30 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
31 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 2
32 Required revision messages #4302 2
33 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
34 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
35 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
36 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
37 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
38 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
39 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
40 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
41 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
42 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
43 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
44 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
45 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 1
46 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
47 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
48 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
49 Make some block settings global #3805 1
50 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 1
51 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
52 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
53 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
54 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
55 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
56 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
57 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
58 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
59 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
60 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
61 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
62 I don't want default content #5587 1
63 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
64 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
65 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 1
66 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
67 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
68 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
69 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
70 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
71 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
72 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
73 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
74 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
75 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
76 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
77 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
78 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
79 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
80 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
81 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
82 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
83 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
84 Add state_override function to core #4725
85 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
86 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
87 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
88 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
89 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
90 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
91 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
92 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
93 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
94 Add global site logo token #5871
95 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
96 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
97 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
98 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
99 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
100 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237

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