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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 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
402 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
403 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
404 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
405 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
406 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
407 Content creation page cleanup #202
408 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
409 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
410 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
411 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
412 Rename default Contact form category #4703
413 Seventy two theme #5928
414 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
415 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
416 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
417 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
418 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
419 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
420 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
421 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
422 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
423 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
424 Trim textfields? #6386
425 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
426 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
427 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
428 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
429 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
430 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
431 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
432 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
433 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
434 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
435 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
436 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
437 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
438 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
439 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
440 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
441 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
442 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
443 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
444 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
445 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
446 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
447 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
448 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
449 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
450 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
451 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
452 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
453 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
454 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
455 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
456 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
457 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
458 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
459 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
460 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
461 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
462 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
463 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
464 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
465 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
466 Add layouts into the search index #5128
467 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
468 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
469 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
470 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
471 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
472 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
473 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
474 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
475 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
476 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
477 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
478 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
479 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
480 Double click prevention #6393
481 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
482 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
483 Better Book navigation links #4879
484 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
485 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
486 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
487 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
488 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
489 Redirects write to json files? #4001
490 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
491 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
492 uuid and entity import / export #890
493 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
494 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
495 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
496 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
497 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
498 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
499 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
500 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738

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