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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
701 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
702 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
703 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
704 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
705 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
706 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
707 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
708 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
709 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
710 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
711 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
712 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
713 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
714 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
715 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
716 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
717 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
718 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
719 Seventy two theme #5928
720 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
721 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
722 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
723 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
724 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
725 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
726 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
727 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
728 Trim textfields? #6386
729 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
730 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
731 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
732 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
733 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
734 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
735 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
736 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
737 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
738 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
739 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
740 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
741 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
742 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
743 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
744 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
745 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
746 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680
747 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
748 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
749 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
750 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
751 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
752 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
753 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
754 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
755 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
756 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
757 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
758 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
759 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
760 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
761 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
762 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
763 Double click prevention #6393
764 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
765 Content creation page cleanup #202
766 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
767 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
768 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
769 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
770 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
771 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
772 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
773 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
774 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
775 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
776 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
777 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
778 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
779 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
780 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
781 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
782 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
783 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
784 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
785 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
786 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
787 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
788 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
789 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
790 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
791 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
792 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
793 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
794 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
795 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
796 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
797 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
798 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
799 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
800 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331

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