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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 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
402 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
403 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
404 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
405 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
406 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
407 [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
408 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
409 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
410 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
411 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
412 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
413 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
414 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
415 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
416 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
417 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
418 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
419 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
420 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
421 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
422 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
423 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
424 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
425 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
426 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
427 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
428 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
429 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
430 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
431 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
432 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
433 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
434 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
435 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
436 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
437 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
438 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
439 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
440 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
441 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
442 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
443 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
444 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
445 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
446 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
447 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
448 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
449 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
450 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
451 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
452 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
453 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
454 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
455 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
456 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
457 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
458 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
459 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
460 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
461 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
462 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
463 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
464 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
465 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
466 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
467 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
468 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
469 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
470 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
471 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
472 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
473 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
474 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
475 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
476 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
477 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
478 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
479 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
480 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
481 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
482 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
483 Create a printable Status Report #5821
484 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
485 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
486 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
487 [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
488 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
489 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
490 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
491 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
492 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
493 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
494 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
495 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
496 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
497 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
498 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
499 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
500 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233

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