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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 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
402 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
403 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
404 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
405 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
406 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
407 Rename default Contact form category #4703
408 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
409 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
410 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
411 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
412 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
413 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
414 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
415 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
416 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
417 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
418 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
419 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
420 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
421 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
422 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
423 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
424 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
425 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
426 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
427 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
428 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
429 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
430 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
431 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
432 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
433 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
434 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
435 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
436 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
437 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
438 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
439 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
440 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
441 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
442 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
443 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
444 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
445 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
446 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
447 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
448 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
449 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
450 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
451 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
452 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
453 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
454 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
455 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
456 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
457 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
458 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
459 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
460 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
461 Add layouts into the search index #5128
462 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
463 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
464 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
465 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
466 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
467 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
468 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
469 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
470 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
471 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
472 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
473 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
474 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
475 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
476 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
477 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
478 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
479 Better Book navigation links #4879
480 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
481 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
482 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
483 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
484 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
485 Redirects write to json files? #4001
486 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
487 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
488 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
489 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
490 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
491 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
492 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
493 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
494 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
495 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
496 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
497 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
498 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
499 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
500 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613

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