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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 "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
402 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
403 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
404 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
405 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
406 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
407 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
408 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
409 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
410 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
411 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
412 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
413 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
414 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
415 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
416 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
417 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
418 Trim textfields? #6386
419 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
420 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
421 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
422 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
423 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
424 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
425 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
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 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
428 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
429 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
430 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
431 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
432 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
433 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
434 Seventy two theme #5928
435 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
436 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
437 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
438 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
439 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
440 Telemetry: Collect Internet Status At Time Of Install #5222
441 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
442 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
443 [A11Y] Native dark mode support (at least for the Seven admin theme) #4778
444 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
445 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
446 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
447 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
448 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
449 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
450 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
451 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
452 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
453 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
454 [DX] Allow Config::get()/config_get() to specify a default - same as update_variable_get() #5453
455 Comment administration improvements #2919
456 'Unused' module detector #5020
457 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
458 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
459 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
460 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
461 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
462 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
463 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
464 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
465 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
466 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
467 [PS][D9] Dynamic Page Cache add in Backdrop core #5217
468 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
469 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
470 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
471 Double click prevention #6393
472 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
473 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
474 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
475 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
476 Redirects write to json files? #4001
477 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
478 [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
479 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
480 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
481 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
482 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
483 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
484 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
485 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
486 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
487 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
488 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
489 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
490 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
491 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
492 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
493 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
494 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
495 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
496 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
497 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
498 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
499 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
500 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180

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