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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 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
602 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
603 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
604 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
605 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
606 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
607 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
608 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
609 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
610 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
611 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
612 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
613 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
614 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
615 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
616 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
617 Add layouts into the search index #5128
618 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
619 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
620 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
621 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
622 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
623 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
624 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
625 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
626 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
627 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
628 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
629 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
630 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
631 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
632 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
633 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
634 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
635 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
636 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
637 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
638 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
639 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
640 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
641 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
642 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
643 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
644 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
645 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
646 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
647 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
648 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
649 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
650 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
651 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
652 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
653 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
654 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
655 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
656 [D10] Invoke hook after a site install is complete #5876
657 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
658 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808
659 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
660 Add function that returns default config #3251
661 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
662 Better Book navigation links #4879
663 [DX] backdrop_process_states: Introduce a new `primary`/`secondary` set of states for submit buttons #3441
664 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
665 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
666 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
667 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
668 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
669 Add a wrapper to make tables "responsive" #6008
670 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
671 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
672 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
673 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
674 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
675 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
676 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
677 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
678 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
679 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
680 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
681 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
682 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
683 Allow taxonomy term for layout block visibility #5612
684 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
685 [UX] When a new content type is created, automatically assign permissions to the "Editor" role #5885
686 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
687 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
688 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
689 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
690 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
691 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
692 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
693 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
694 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
695 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
696 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
697 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
698 More useful tags for views #6268
699 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
700 [DX] Disabling a field should not update the weights of all fields #5755

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