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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 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
902 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
903 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
904 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
905 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
906 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
907 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
908 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
909 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
910 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
911 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
912 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
913 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
914 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
915 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
916 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
917 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
918 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
919 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
920 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
921 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
922 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
923 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
924 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
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 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
927 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
928 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
929 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
930 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
931 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
932 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
933 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
934 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
935 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
936 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
937 Showcase core features during install #4138
938 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
939 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
940 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
941 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
942 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
943 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
944 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
945 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
946 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
947 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
948 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
949 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
950 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
951 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
952 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
953 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
954 Seventy two theme #5928
955 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
956 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
957 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
958 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
959 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
960 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
961 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
962 Add layouts into the search index #5128
963 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
964 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
965 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
966 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
967 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
968 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
969 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
970 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
971 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
972 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
973 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
974 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
975 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
976 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
977 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
978 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
979 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
980 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
981 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
982 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
983 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
984 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
985 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
986 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535

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