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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 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
902 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
903 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
904 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
905 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
906 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
907 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
908 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
909 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
910 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
911 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
912 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
913 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
914 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
915 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
916 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
917 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
918 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
919 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
920 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
921 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
922 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
923 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
924 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
925 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
926 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
927 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
928 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
929 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
930 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
931 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
932 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
933 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
934 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
935 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
936 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
937 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
938 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
939 [D10] Invoke hook after a site install is complete #5876
940 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
941 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
942 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
943 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
944 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
945 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
946 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
947 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
948 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
949 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
950 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
951 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
952 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
953 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
954 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
955 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
956 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
957 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
958 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
959 Mobile first approach theme #4131
960 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
961 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
962 Allow taxonomy term for layout block visibility #5612
963 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
964 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
965 [UX] When a new content type is created, automatically assign permissions to the "Editor" role #5885
966 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
967 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
968 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
969 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
970 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
971 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
972 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
973 More useful tags for views #6268
974 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
975 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
976 [DX] Disabling a field should not update the weights of all fields #5755
977 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
978 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
979 Add a wrapper to make tables "responsive" #6008
980 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
981 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
982 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
983 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
984 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
985 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
986 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560

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