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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
501 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
502 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
503 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
504 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
505 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
506 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
507 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
508 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
509 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
510 [DX] Allow Config::get()/config_get() to specify a default - same as update_variable_get() #5453
511 'Unused' module detector #5020
512 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
513 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
514 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
515 Custom Block contextual link #4390
516 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
517 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
518 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
519 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
520 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
521 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
522 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
523 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
524 [PS][D9] Dynamic Page Cache add in Backdrop core #5217
525 [A11Y] Native dark mode support (at least for the Seven admin theme) #4778
526 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
527 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
528 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
529 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
530 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
531 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
532 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
533 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
534 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
535 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
536 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
537 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
538 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
539 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
540 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
541 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
542 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
543 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
544 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
545 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
546 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
547 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
548 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
549 Seventy two theme #5928
550 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
551 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
552 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
553 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
554 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
555 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
556 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
557 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
558 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
559 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
560 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
561 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
562 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
563 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
564 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
565 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
566 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
567 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
568 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
569 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
570 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
571 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
572 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
573 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
574 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
575 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
576 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
577 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
578 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
579 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
580 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
581 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
582 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
583 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
584 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
585 Showcase core features during install #4138
586 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
587 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
588 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
589 Trim textfields? #6386
590 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
591 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
592 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
593 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
594 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
595 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
596 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
597 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
598 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
599 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
600 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707

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