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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
601 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
602 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
603 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
604 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
605 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
606 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
607 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
608 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
609 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
610 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
611 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
612 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
613 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
614 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
615 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
616 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
617 Use config for color module palettes #2554
618 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
619 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
620 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
621 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
622 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
623 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
624 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
625 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
626 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
627 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
628 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
629 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
630 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
631 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
632 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
633 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
634 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
635 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
636 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
637 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
638 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
639 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
640 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
641 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
642 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
643 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
644 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
645 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
646 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
647 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
648 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
649 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
650 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
651 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
652 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
653 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
654 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
655 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
656 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
657 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
658 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
659 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
660 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
661 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
662 [DX] Form API: Allow number fields to specify an array of suggested values (#options) #5285
663 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
664 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
665 [UX] Add a new pageless node above the "Promoted Content" block on Home page #4849
666 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
667 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
668 Create "Current Node" block #5774
669 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
670 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
671 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
672 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
673 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
674 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
675 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
676 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
677 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083
678 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
679 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
680 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
681 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
682 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
683 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
684 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
685 Menu router refactoring #2400
686 Feature/Package Module Proposal #1238
687 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
688 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
689 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
690 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
691 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
692 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
693 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
694 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
695 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
696 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
697 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
698 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
699 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
700 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104

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