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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
701 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
702 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
703 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
704 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
705 Search terms along with nodes #3850
706 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
707 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
708 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
709 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
710 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
711 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
712 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
713 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
714 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
715 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
716 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
717 [DX] Introduce a server-side conditional system (to possibly replace `#states`) #5750
718 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
719 Add 'Field HTML Trim' to core #6001
720 Better Book navigation links #4879
721 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
722 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
723 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
724 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
725 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
726 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
727 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
728 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
729 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
730 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
731 One click install for digitalocean #5628
732 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
733 Allow regions titles #2647
734 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
735 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
736 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
737 [SR] Better/safer file type validation #3830
738 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
739 'Manage files' view sometimes shows incorrect filename #3507
740 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
741 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
742 More useful tags for views #6268
743 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
744 Mobile first approach theme #4131
745 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
746 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
747 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
748 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
749 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
750 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
751 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
752 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
753 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
754 [UX][D8] Views: Expose responsive classes in the UI via table settings #3656
755 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
756 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
757 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
758 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
759 [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
760 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
761 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
762 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
763 [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
764 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
765 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
766 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
767 [DX] Allow `language_list()` to output select list `#options` with both the native and the non-native language labels #5901
768 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
769 [UX] Layouts: Allow menu "source" to be changed from within any menu block #3820
770 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
771 CKEditor: Figure out a way to clear its cache so that plugin changes show up right away. #3460
772 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
773 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
774 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
775 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
776 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
777 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
778 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
779 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
780 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
781 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
782 Telemetry: Collect Internet Status At Time Of Install #5222
783 [UX] Add "Configure page title" tab to Layout admin pages #3983
784 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
785 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
786 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
787 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
788 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
789 [A11Y] Native dark mode support (at least for the Seven admin theme) #4778
790 Restore Configurable Actions to core #3646
791 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
792 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
793 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
794 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
795 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
796 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
797 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
798 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
799 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
800 [DX] Allow Config::get()/config_get() to specify a default - same as update_variable_get() #5453

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