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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 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
602 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
603 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
604 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
605 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
606 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
607 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
608 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
609 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
610 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
611 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
612 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
613 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
614 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
615 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
616 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
617 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
618 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
619 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
620 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
621 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
622 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
623 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
624 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
625 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
626 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
627 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
628 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
629 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
630 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
631 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
632 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
633 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
634 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
635 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
636 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
637 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
638 Add layouts into the search index #5128
639 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
640 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
641 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
642 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
643 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
644 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
645 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
646 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
647 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
648 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
649 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
650 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
651 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
652 Double click prevention #6393
653 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
654 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
655 Better Book navigation links #4879
656 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
657 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
658 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
659 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
660 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
661 Redirects write to json files? #4001
662 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
663 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
664 uuid and entity import / export #890
665 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
666 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
667 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
668 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
669 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
670 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
671 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
672 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
673 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
674 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
675 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
676 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
677 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
678 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
679 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
680 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
681 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
682 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
683 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
684 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
685 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
686 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
687 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
688 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
689 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
690 Custom Block contextual link #4390
691 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
692 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
693 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
694 [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
695 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
696 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
697 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
698 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
699 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
700 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231

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