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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 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
202 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
203 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
204 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
205 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
206 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
207 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
208 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
209 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
210 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
211 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
212 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
213 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
214 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
215 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
216 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
217 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
218 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
219 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
220 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
221 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
222 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
223 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
224 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
225 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
226 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
227 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
228 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
229 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
230 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
231 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
232 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
233 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
234 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
235 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
236 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
237 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
238 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
239 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
240 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
241 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
242 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
243 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
244 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
245 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
246 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
247 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
248 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
249 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
250 Create "Current Node" block #5774
251 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
252 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
253 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
254 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
255 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
256 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
257 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
258 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
259 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
260 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
261 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
262 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
263 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
264 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
265 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
266 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
267 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
268 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
269 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
270 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
271 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
272 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
273 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
274 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
275 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
276 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
277 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
278 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
279 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
280 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
281 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
282 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
283 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
284 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
285 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
286 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
287 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
288 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
289 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
290 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
291 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
292 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
293 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
294 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
295 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
296 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
297 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
298 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
299 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
300 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545

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