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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] Trim summary on word boundary #599
402 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
403 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
404 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
405 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
406 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
407 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
408 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
409 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
410 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
411 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
412 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
413 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
414 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
415 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
416 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
417 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
418 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
419 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
420 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
421 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
422 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
423 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
424 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
425 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
426 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
427 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
428 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
429 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
430 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
431 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
432 Trim textfields? #6386
433 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
434 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
435 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
436 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
437 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
438 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
439 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
440 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
441 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
442 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
443 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
444 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
445 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
446 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
447 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
448 Add layouts into the search index #5128
449 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
450 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
451 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
452 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
453 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
454 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
455 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
456 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
457 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
458 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
459 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
460 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
461 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
462 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
463 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
464 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
465 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
466 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
467 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
468 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
469 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
470 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
471 Redirects write to json files? #4001
472 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
473 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
474 uuid and entity import / export #890
475 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
476 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
477 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
478 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
479 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
480 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
481 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
482 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
483 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
484 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
485 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
486 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
487 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
488 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
489 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
490 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
491 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
492 Double click prevention #6393
493 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
494 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
495 Better Book navigation links #4879
496 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
497 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
498 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
499 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
500 Custom Block contextual link #4390

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