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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] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
602 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
603 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
604 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
605 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
606 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
607 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
608 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
609 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
610 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
611 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
612 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
613 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
614 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
615 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
616 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
617 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
618 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
619 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
620 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
621 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
622 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
623 [UX] When uninstalling a module, list all things that will be lost (blocks, views, menus) in the confirmation page. #1624
624 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
625 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
626 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
627 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
628 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
629 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
630 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
631 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
632 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
633 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
634 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
635 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
636 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
637 Create a printable Status Report #5821
638 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
639 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
640 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
641 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
642 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
643 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
644 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
645 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
646 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
647 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
648 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
649 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
650 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
651 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
652 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
653 Allow core libraries to be served via CDN #1593
654 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
655 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
656 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262
657 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
658 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
659 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
660 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
661 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
662 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
663 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
664 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
665 VBO: option for separate button per action & option to override labels #802
666 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
667 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
668 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
669 Add support for tokens in the file field names and paths (File Field Paths module in core) #1440
670 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
671 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
672 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
673 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
674 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
675 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
676 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
677 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
678 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
679 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
680 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
681 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
682 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
683 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
684 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
685 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
686 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
687 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
688 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
689 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
690 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
691 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
692 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
693 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
694 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
695 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
696 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
697 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
698 Cache settings via admin section #1434
699 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
700 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653

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