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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 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
203 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
204 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
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 One click install for digitalocean #5628
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 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
211 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
212 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
213 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
214 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
215 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
216 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
217 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
218 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
219 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
220 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
221 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
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 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
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 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
228 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
229 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
230 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
231 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
232 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
233 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
234 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
235 [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
236 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
237 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
238 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
239 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
240 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
241 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
242 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
243 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
244 Double click prevention #6393
245 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
246 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
247 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
248 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
249 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
250 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
251 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
252 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
253 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
254 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
255 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
256 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
257 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
258 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
259 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
260 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
261 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
262 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
263 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
264 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
265 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
266 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
267 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
268 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
269 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
270 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
271 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
272 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
273 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
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 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
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 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
281 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
282 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
283 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
284 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
285 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
286 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
287 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
288 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
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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