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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] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
602 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
603 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
604 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
605 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
606 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
607 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
608 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
609 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
610 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
611 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
612 Seventy two theme #5928
613 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
614 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
615 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
616 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
617 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
618 Showcase core features during install #4138
619 Menu router refactoring #2400
620 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
621 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
622 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
623 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
624 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
625 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
626 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
627 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
628 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
629 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
630 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
631 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
632 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
633 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
634 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
635 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
636 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
637 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
638 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
639 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
640 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
641 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
642 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
643 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
644 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
645 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
646 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
647 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
648 Double click prevention #6393
649 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
650 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
651 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
652 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
653 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
654 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
655 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
656 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
657 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
658 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
659 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
660 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
661 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
662 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
663 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
664 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
665 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
666 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
667 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
668 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
669 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
670 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
671 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
672 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
673 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
674 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
675 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
676 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
677 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
678 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
679 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
680 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
681 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
682 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
683 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
684 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
685 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
686 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
687 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
688 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
689 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
690 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
691 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
692 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
693 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
694 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
695 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
696 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
697 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
698 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
699 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
700 Add function that returns default config #3251

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