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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 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
902 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
903 Disable unused layout templates #5068
904 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
905 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
906 Create a printable Status Report #5821
907 Allow anonymous users to use a SESSION variable to set timezone #4612
908 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
909 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
910 [DX][D8] Allow config files to have dependencies #4188
911 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
912 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
913 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
914 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
915 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
916 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
917 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
918 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
919 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
920 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821
921 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
922 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
923 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
924 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
925 [UX] When there is only one menu item in a section, don't list #4386
926 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
927 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
928 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
929 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
930 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
931 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
932 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
933 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
934 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
935 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
936 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
937 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
938 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
939 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
940 [SR] Add a minimum length setting for passwords #4589
941 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
942 Request to add a link to project pages for modules on Functionality page #4179
943 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
944 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
945 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
946 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
947 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
948 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
949 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
950 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
951 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
952 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
953 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
954 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
955 Display default views on a separate tab #4369
956 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
957 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
958 Reuse test prefixes instead of rebuilding them for each test #4353
959 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
960 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
961 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
962 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
963 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
964 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
965 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
966 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
967 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
968 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
969 [UX] Provide a report page that lists all configured paths where files are being saved. #4585
970 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
971 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
972 Improve the styling of color input elements in the admin theme #4155
973 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
974 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
975 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
976 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
977 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
978 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
979 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
980 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
981 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
982 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
983 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
984 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
985 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
986 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523

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