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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 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
602 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
603 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
604 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
605 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
606 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
607 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
608 Comment administration improvements #2919
609 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
610 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
611 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
612 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
613 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
614 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
615 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
616 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
617 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
618 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
619 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
620 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
621 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
622 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
623 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
624 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
625 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
626 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
627 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
628 Create a printable Status Report #5821
629 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
630 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
631 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
632 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
633 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
634 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
635 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
636 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
637 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
638 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
639 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
640 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
641 Menu router refactoring #2400
642 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
643 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
644 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
645 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
646 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
647 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
648 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
649 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
650 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
651 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
652 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
653 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
654 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
655 Allow regions titles #2647
656 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
657 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
658 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
659 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
660 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
661 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
662 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
663 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
664 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
665 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
666 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
667 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
668 More useful tags for views #6268
669 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
670 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
671 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
672 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
673 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
674 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
675 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
676 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
677 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
678 Search terms along with nodes #3850
679 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
680 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
681 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
682 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
683 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
684 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
685 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
686 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
687 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
688 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
689 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
690 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
691 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
692 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
693 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
694 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
695 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
696 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
697 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
698 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
699 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
700 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712

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