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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 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
402 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
403 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
404 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
405 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
406 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
407 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
408 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
409 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
410 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
411 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
412 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
413 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
414 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
415 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
416 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
417 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
418 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
419 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
420 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
421 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
422 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
423 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
424 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
425 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
426 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
427 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
428 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
429 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
430 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
431 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
432 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
433 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
434 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
435 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
436 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
437 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
438 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
439 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
440 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
441 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
442 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
443 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
444 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
445 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
446 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
447 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
448 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
449 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
450 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
451 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
452 Add layouts into the search index #5128
453 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
454 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
455 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
456 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
457 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
458 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
459 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
460 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
461 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
462 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
463 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
464 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
465 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
466 More useful tags for views #6268
467 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
468 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
469 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
470 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
471 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
472 Better Book navigation links #4879
473 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
474 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
475 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
476 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
477 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
478 Redirects write to json files? #4001
479 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
480 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
481 uuid and entity import / export #890
482 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
483 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
484 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
485 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
486 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
487 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
488 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
489 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
490 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
491 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
492 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
493 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
494 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
495 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
496 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
497 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
498 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
499 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
500 Simplify Layout configuration #5592

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