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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 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
402 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
403 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
404 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
405 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
406 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
407 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
408 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
409 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
410 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
411 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
412 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
413 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
414 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
415 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
416 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
417 Comment administration improvements #2919
418 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
419 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
420 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
421 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
422 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
423 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
424 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
425 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
426 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
427 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
428 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
429 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
430 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
431 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
432 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
433 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
434 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
435 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
436 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
437 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
438 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
439 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
440 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
441 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
442 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
443 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
444 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
445 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
446 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
447 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
448 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
449 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
450 Menu router refactoring #2400
451 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
452 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
453 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
454 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
455 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
456 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
457 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
458 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
459 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
460 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
461 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
462 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
463 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
464 Allow regions titles #2647
465 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
466 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
467 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
468 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
469 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
470 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
471 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
472 [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
473 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
474 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
475 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
476 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
477 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
478 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
479 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
480 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
481 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
482 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
483 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
484 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
485 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
486 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
487 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
488 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
489 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
490 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
491 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
492 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
493 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
494 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
495 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
496 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
497 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
498 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
499 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
500 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109

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