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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
401 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
402 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
403 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
404 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
405 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
406 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
407 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
408 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
409 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
410 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
411 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
412 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
413 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
414 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
415 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
416 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
417 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
418 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
419 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
420 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
421 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
422 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
423 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
424 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
425 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
426 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
427 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
428 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
429 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
430 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
431 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
432 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
433 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
434 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
435 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
436 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
437 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
438 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
439 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
440 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
441 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
442 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
443 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
444 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
445 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
446 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
447 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
448 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
449 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
450 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
451 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
452 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
453 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
454 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
455 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
456 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
457 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
458 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
459 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
460 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
461 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
462 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
463 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
464 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
465 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
466 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
467 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
468 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
469 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
470 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
471 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
472 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
473 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
474 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
475 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
476 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
477 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
478 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
479 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
480 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
481 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
482 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
483 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
484 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
485 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
486 Create a printable Status Report #5821
487 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
488 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
489 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
490 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
491 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
492 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
493 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
494 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
495 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
496 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
497 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
498 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
499 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
500 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385

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