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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 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
602 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
603 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
604 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
605 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
606 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
607 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
608 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
609 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
610 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
611 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
612 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
613 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
614 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
615 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
616 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
617 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
618 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
619 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
620 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
621 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
622 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
623 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
624 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
625 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
626 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
627 Content creation page cleanup #202
628 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
629 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
630 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
631 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
632 Rename default Contact form category #4703
633 Seventy two theme #5928
634 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
635 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
636 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
637 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
638 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
639 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
640 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
641 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
642 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
643 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
644 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
645 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
646 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
647 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
648 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
649 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
650 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
651 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
652 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
653 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
654 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
655 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
656 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
657 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
658 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
659 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
660 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
661 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
662 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
663 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
664 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
665 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
666 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
667 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
668 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
669 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
670 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
671 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
672 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
673 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
674 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
675 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
676 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
677 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
678 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
679 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
680 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
681 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
682 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
683 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
684 Add layouts into the search index #5128
685 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
686 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
687 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
688 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
689 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
690 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
691 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
692 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
693 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
694 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
695 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
696 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
697 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
698 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
699 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
700 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585

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