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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 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
402 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
403 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
404 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
405 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
406 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
407 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
408 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
409 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
410 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
411 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
412 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
413 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
414 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
415 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
416 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
417 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
418 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
419 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
420 Redirects write to json files? #4001
421 [DX] Form API: Allow number fields to specify an array of suggested values (#options) #5285
422 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
423 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
424 [UX] Add a new pageless node above the "Promoted Content" block on Home page #4849
425 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
426 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
427 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
428 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
429 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
430 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
431 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
432 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
433 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
434 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
435 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
436 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
437 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
438 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
439 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083
440 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
441 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
442 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
443 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
444 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
445 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
446 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
447 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
448 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
449 Custom Block contextual link #4390
450 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
451 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
452 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
453 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
454 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
455 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
456 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
457 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
458 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
459 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
460 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
461 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
462 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
463 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
464 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
465 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
466 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
467 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
468 Status Report should flag duplicate module installs #5464
469 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
470 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
471 Disable unused layout templates #5068
472 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
473 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
474 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
475 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
476 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
477 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
478 Add function that returns default config #3251
479 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
480 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
481 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
482 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
483 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
484 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
485 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
486 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
487 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
488 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
489 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
490 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
491 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
492 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
493 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
494 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
495 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
496 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
497 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
498 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
499 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
500 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985

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