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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 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
402 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
403 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
404 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
405 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
406 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
407 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
408 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
409 Add a new core theme #5175
410 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
411 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
412 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
413 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
414 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
415 Showcase core features during install #4138
416 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
417 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
418 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
419 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
420 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
421 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
422 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
423 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
424 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
425 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
426 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
427 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
428 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
429 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
430 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
431 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
432 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
433 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
434 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
435 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
436 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
437 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
438 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
439 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
440 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
441 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
442 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
443 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
444 Trim textfields? #6386
445 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
446 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
447 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
448 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
449 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
450 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
451 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
452 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
453 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
454 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
455 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
456 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
457 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
458 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
459 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
460 Seventy two theme #5928
461 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
462 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
463 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
464 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
465 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
466 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
467 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
468 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
469 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
470 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
471 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
472 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
473 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
474 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
475 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
476 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
477 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
478 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
479 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
480 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
481 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
482 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
483 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
484 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
485 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
486 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
487 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
488 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
489 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
490 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
491 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
492 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
493 Remove syslog module from core #1260
494 Evaluate the reasons for removal of the Trigger module from core. #2522
495 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
496 Create redirects for bulk alias delete #1993
497 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
498 Double click prevention #6393
499 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
500 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318

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