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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] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
402 Group interdependent checkboxes visually #6013
403 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
404 Showcase core features during install #4138
405 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
406 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
407 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
408 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
409 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
410 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
411 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
412 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
413 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
414 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
415 Add state_override function to core #4725
416 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
417 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
418 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
419 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
420 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
421 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
422 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
423 More useful tags for views #6268
424 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
425 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
426 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
427 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
428 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
429 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
430 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
431 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
432 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
433 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
434 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
435 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
436 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
437 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
438 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
439 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
440 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
441 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
442 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
443 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
444 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
445 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
446 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
447 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
448 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
449 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
450 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
451 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
452 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
453 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
454 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
455 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
456 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
457 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
458 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
459 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
460 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
461 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
462 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
463 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
464 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
465 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
466 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
467 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
468 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
469 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
470 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
471 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
472 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
473 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
474 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
475 Views advanced settings: Only one page region, but still a drop-down. #852
476 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
477 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
478 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
479 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
480 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
481 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
482 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
483 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
484 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
485 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
486 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
487 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
488 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
489 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
490 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
491 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
492 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
493 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
494 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
495 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
496 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
497 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
498 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
499 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
500 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933

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