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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 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
402 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
403 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
404 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
405 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
406 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
407 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
408 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
409 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
410 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
411 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
412 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
413 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
414 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
415 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
416 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
417 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
418 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
419 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
420 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
421 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
422 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
423 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
424 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
425 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
426 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
427 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
428 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
429 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
430 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
431 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
432 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
433 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
434 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
435 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
436 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
437 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
438 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
439 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
440 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
441 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
442 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
443 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
444 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
445 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
446 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
447 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
448 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
449 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
450 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
451 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
452 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
453 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
454 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
455 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
456 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
457 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
458 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
459 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
460 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
461 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
462 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
463 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
464 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
465 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
466 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
467 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
468 Create a printable Status Report #5821
469 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
470 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
471 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
472 [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
473 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
474 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
475 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
476 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
477 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
478 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
479 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
480 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
481 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
482 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
483 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
484 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
485 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
486 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
487 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
488 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
489 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
490 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
491 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
492 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
493 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
494 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
495 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
496 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
497 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
498 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
499 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
500 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455

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