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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] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
602 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
603 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
604 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
605 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
606 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
607 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
608 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
609 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
610 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
611 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
612 Views advanced settings: Only one page region, but still a drop-down. #852
613 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
614 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083
615 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
616 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
617 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
618 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
619 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
620 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
621 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
622 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
623 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
624 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
625 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
626 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
627 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
628 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
629 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
630 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
631 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
632 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
633 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
634 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
635 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
636 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
637 Create a printable Status Report #5821
638 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
639 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
640 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
641 Status Report should flag duplicate module installs #5464
642 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
643 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
644 Disable unused layout templates #5068
645 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
646 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
647 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
648 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
649 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
650 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
651 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
652 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
653 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
654 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
655 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
656 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
657 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
658 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
659 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
660 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
661 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
662 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
663 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
664 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
665 Redirects write to json files? #4001
666 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
667 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
668 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
669 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
670 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
671 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
672 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
673 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
674 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
675 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
676 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
677 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
678 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
679 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
680 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
681 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
682 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
683 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
684 Remove syslog module from core #1260
685 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
686 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
687 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
688 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
689 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
690 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
691 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
692 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
693 Custom Block contextual link #4390
694 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
695 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
696 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
697 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
698 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
699 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
700 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039

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