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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 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
602 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
603 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
604 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
605 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
606 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
607 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
608 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
609 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
610 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
611 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
612 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
613 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
614 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
615 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
616 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
617 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
618 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
619 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
620 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
621 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
622 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
623 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
624 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
625 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
626 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
627 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
628 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
629 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
630 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
631 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
632 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
633 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
634 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
635 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
636 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
637 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
638 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
639 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
640 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
641 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
642 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
643 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
644 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
645 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
646 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
647 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
648 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
649 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
650 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
651 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
652 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
653 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
654 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
655 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
656 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
657 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
658 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
659 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
660 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
661 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
662 Create a printable Status Report #5821
663 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
664 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
665 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
666 [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
667 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
668 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
669 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
670 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
671 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
672 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
673 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
674 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
675 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
676 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
677 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
678 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
679 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
680 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
681 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
682 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
683 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
684 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
685 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
686 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
687 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
688 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
689 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
690 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
691 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
692 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
693 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
694 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
695 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
696 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
697 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
698 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
699 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
700 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274

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