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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] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
402 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
403 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
404 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
405 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
406 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
407 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
408 Remove syslog module from core #1260
409 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
410 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
411 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
412 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
413 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
414 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
415 Create "Current Node" block #5774
416 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
417 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
418 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
419 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
420 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
421 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
422 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
423 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
424 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
425 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
426 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
427 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
428 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
429 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
430 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
431 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
432 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
433 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
434 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
435 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
436 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
437 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
438 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
439 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
440 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
441 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
442 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
443 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
444 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
445 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
446 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
447 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
448 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
449 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
450 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
451 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
452 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
453 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
454 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
455 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
456 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
457 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
458 [D8][A11Y] ALT attributes should be enabled by default on new fields and have an option to set ALT and TITLE attributes as required #3006
459 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
460 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
461 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
462 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
463 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
464 Mobile first approach theme #4131
465 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
466 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
467 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
468 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
469 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
470 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
471 Trim textfields? #6386
472 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
473 [WP] Media Library #3203
474 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
475 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
476 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
477 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
478 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
479 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
480 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
481 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
482 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
483 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
484 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
485 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
486 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
487 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
488 Seventy two theme #5928
489 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
490 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
491 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
492 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
493 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
494 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
495 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
496 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
497 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
498 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
499 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
500 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779

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