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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 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
902 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
903 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
904 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
905 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
906 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
907 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
908 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
909 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
910 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
911 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
912 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
913 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
914 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
915 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
916 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
917 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
918 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
919 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
920 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
921 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
922 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
923 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
924 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
925 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
926 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
927 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
928 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
929 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
930 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
931 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
932 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
933 [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
934 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
935 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
936 Create a printable Status Report #5821
937 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
938 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
939 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
940 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
941 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
942 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
943 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
944 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
945 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
946 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
947 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
948 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
949 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
950 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
951 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
952 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
953 Rename default Contact form category #4703
954 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
955 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
956 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
957 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
958 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
959 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
960 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
961 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
962 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
963 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
964 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
965 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
966 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
967 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
968 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
969 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
970 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
971 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
972 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
973 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
974 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
975 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
976 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
977 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
978 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
979 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
980 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
981 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
982 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
983 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692

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