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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] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
602 Showcase core features during install #4138
603 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
604 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
605 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
606 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
607 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
608 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
609 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
610 One click install for digitalocean #5628
611 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
612 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
613 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
614 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
615 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
616 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
617 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
618 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
619 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
620 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
621 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
622 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
623 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
624 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
625 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
626 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
627 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
628 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
629 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
630 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
631 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
632 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
633 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
634 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
635 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
636 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
637 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
638 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
639 [UX] Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden from users with the "Administer book outlines" permission #3638
640 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
641 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
642 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
643 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
644 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
645 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
646 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
647 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
648 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
649 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
650 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
651 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
652 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
653 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
654 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
655 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
656 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
657 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
658 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
659 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
660 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
661 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
662 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
663 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
664 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
665 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
666 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
667 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
668 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
669 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
670 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
671 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
672 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
673 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
674 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
675 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
676 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
677 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
678 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
679 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
680 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
681 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
682 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
683 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
684 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
685 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
686 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
687 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
688 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
689 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
690 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
691 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
692 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
693 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
694 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
695 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
696 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
697 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
698 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
699 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
700 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949

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