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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 Disable unused layout templates #5068
902 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
903 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
904 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
905 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
906 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
907 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
908 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
909 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
910 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
911 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
912 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
913 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
914 Allow altering image style urls #5745
915 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
916 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
917 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
918 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
919 [UX] Contact module: Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the admin UI - allow customizing the label of the field in the public-facing form #5992
920 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
921 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
922 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
923 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
924 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
925 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
926 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
927 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
928 [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
929 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
930 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
931 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
932 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
933 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
934 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
935 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
936 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
937 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
938 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
939 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
940 Add function that returns default config #3251
941 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
942 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
943 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
944 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
945 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
946 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
947 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
948 [DX] Introduce a server-side conditional system (to possibly replace `#states`) #5750
949 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
950 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
951 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
952 Add 'Field HTML Trim' to core #6001
953 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
954 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
955 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
956 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
957 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
958 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
959 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
960 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
961 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
962 One click install for digitalocean #5628
963 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
964 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
965 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
966 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
967 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
968 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
969 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
970 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232
971 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
972 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
973 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
974 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
975 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
976 More useful tags for views #6268
977 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
978 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
979 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
980 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
981 uuid and entity import / export #890
982 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
983 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
984 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
985 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
986 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101

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