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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 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
902 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
903 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
904 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
905 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
906 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
907 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
908 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
909 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
910 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
911 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
912 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
913 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
914 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
915 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
916 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
917 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
918 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
919 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
920 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
921 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
922 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
923 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
924 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
925 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
926 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
927 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
928 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
929 Create a printable Status Report #5821
930 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
931 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
932 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
933 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
934 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
935 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
936 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
937 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
938 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
939 Telemetry: Collect Internet Status At Time Of Install #5222
940 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
941 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
942 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
943 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
944 [UX] Move new password show/hide toggle to inside the password fields. #3046
945 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
946 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
947 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
948 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
949 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
950 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
951 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
952 Rename default Contact form category #4703
953 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
954 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
955 Add function that returns default config #3251
956 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
957 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
958 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
959 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
960 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
961 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
962 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
963 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
964 [D8] Autosave content #3426
965 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
966 [PS][D9] Dynamic Page Cache add in Backdrop core #5217
967 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
968 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
969 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
970 [A11Y] Native dark mode support (at least for the Seven admin theme) #4778
971 [DX] Implement hook_hook_info() to help organize module code #3024
972 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
973 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
974 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
975 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
976 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
977 Menu router refactoring #2400
978 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
979 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
980 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
981 [DX] Allow Config::get()/config_get() to specify a default - same as update_variable_get() #5453
982 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
983 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
984 'Unused' module detector #5020
985 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
986 Upscaling in out-of-the-box image style 'Large'. #3232

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