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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 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
602 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
603 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
604 Add state_override function to core #4725
605 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
606 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
607 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
608 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
609 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
610 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
611 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
612 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
613 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
614 [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
615 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
616 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
617 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
618 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
619 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
620 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
621 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
622 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
623 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
624 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
625 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
626 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
627 [D8][A11Y] ALT attributes should be enabled by default on new fields and have an option to set ALT and TITLE attributes as required #3006
628 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
629 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
630 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
631 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
632 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
633 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
634 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
635 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
636 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
637 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
638 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
639 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
640 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
641 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
642 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
643 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
644 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
645 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
646 uuid and entity import / export #890
647 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
648 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
649 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
650 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
651 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
652 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
653 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
654 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
655 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
656 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
657 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
658 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
659 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
660 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
661 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
662 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
663 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
664 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
665 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
666 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
667 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
668 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
669 [WP] Media Library #3203
670 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
671 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
672 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
673 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
674 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
675 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
676 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
677 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
678 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
679 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
680 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
681 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
682 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
683 Menu router refactoring #2400
684 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
685 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
686 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
687 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
688 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
689 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
690 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
691 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
692 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
693 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
694 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
695 Create a printable Status Report #5821
696 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
697 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
698 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
699 More useful tags for views #6268
700 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691

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