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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 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
402 Rename default Contact form category #4703
403 Seventy two theme #5928
404 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
405 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
406 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
407 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
408 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
409 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
410 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
411 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
412 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
413 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
414 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
415 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
416 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
417 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
418 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
419 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
420 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
421 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
422 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
423 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
424 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
425 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
426 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
427 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
428 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
429 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
430 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
431 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
432 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
433 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
434 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
435 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
436 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
437 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
438 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
439 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
440 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
441 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
442 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
443 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
444 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
445 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
446 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
447 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
448 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
449 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
450 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
451 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
452 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
453 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
454 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
455 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
456 Add layouts into the search index #5128
457 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
458 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
459 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
460 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
461 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
462 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
463 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
464 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
465 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
466 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
467 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
468 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
469 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
470 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
471 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
472 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
473 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
474 Better Book navigation links #4879
475 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
476 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
477 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
478 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
479 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
480 Redirects write to json files? #4001
481 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
482 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
483 uuid and entity import / export #890
484 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
485 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
486 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
487 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
488 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
489 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
490 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
491 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
492 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
493 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
494 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
495 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
496 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
497 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
498 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
499 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
500 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042

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