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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
901 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
902 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
903 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
904 Cache settings via admin section #1434
905 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
906 Create "Current Node" block #5774
907 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
908 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
909 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
910 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
911 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
912 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
913 [D8][A11Y] ALT attributes should be enabled by default on new fields and have an option to set ALT and TITLE attributes as required #3006
914 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
915 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
916 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
917 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
918 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
919 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
920 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
921 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
922 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
923 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
924 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
925 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
926 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
927 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
928 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
929 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
930 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
931 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
932 [A11Y] Switch Admin Bar to using Smart Menus #2809
933 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
934 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
935 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
936 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
937 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
938 Add a simple way in core to define private and public access for nodes/entities. #1407
939 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
940 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
941 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
942 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
943 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
944 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
945 Add custom block option to follow the translation system easily #2991
946 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
947 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
948 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
949 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
950 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
951 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
952 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
953 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
954 [D8] Autosave content #3426
955 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
956 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
957 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
958 Seventy two theme #5928
959 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
960 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
961 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
962 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
963 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
964 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
965 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
966 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
967 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
968 Trim textfields? #6386
969 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
970 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
971 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
972 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
973 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
974 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
975 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
976 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
977 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
978 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
979 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
980 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
981 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
982 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
983 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61

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