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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
201 Showcase core features during install #4138
202 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
203 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
204 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
205 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
206 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
207 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
208 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
209 One click install for digitalocean #5628
210 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
211 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
212 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
213 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
214 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
215 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
216 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
217 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
218 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
219 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
220 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
221 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
222 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
223 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
224 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
225 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
226 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
227 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
228 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
229 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
230 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
231 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
232 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
233 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
234 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
235 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
236 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
237 [UX] Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden from users with the "Administer book outlines" permission #3638
238 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
239 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
240 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
241 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
242 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
243 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
244 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
245 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
246 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
247 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
248 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
249 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
250 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
251 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
252 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
253 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
254 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
255 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
256 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
257 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
258 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
259 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
260 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
261 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
262 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
263 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
264 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
265 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
266 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
267 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
268 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
269 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
270 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
271 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
272 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
273 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
274 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
275 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
276 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
277 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
278 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
279 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
280 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
281 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
282 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
283 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
284 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
285 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
286 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
287 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
288 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
289 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
290 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
291 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
292 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
293 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
294 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
295 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
296 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
297 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
298 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
299 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
300 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506

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