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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 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
202 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
203 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
204 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
205 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
206 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
207 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
208 Showcase core features during install #4138
209 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
210 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
211 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
212 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
213 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
214 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
215 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
216 One click install for digitalocean #5628
217 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
218 [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
219 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
220 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
221 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
222 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
223 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
224 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
225 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
226 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
227 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
228 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
229 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
230 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
231 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
232 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
233 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
234 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
235 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
236 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
237 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
238 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
239 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
240 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
241 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
242 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
243 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
244 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
245 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
246 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
247 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
248 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
249 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
250 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
251 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
252 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
253 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
254 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
255 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
256 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
257 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
258 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
259 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
260 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
261 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
262 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
263 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
264 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
265 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
266 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
267 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
268 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
269 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
270 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
271 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
272 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
273 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
274 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
275 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
276 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
277 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
278 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
279 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
280 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
281 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
282 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
283 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
284 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
285 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
286 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
287 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
288 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
289 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
290 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
291 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
292 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
293 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
294 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
295 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
296 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
297 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
298 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
299 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
300 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906

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