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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 Add a simple way in core to define private and public access for nodes/entities. #1407
902 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
903 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
904 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
905 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
906 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
907 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
908 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
909 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
910 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
911 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
912 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
913 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
914 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
915 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
916 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
917 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
918 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
919 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
920 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
921 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
922 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
923 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
924 More useful tags for views #6268
925 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
926 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
927 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
928 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
929 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
930 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
931 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
932 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
933 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
934 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
935 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
936 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
937 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
938 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
939 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
940 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
941 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
942 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
943 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
944 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
945 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
946 Redirects write to json files? #4001
947 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
948 uuid and entity import / export #890
949 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
950 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
951 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
952 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
953 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
954 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
955 Allow altering image style urls #5745
956 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
957 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
958 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
959 [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
960 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
961 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
962 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
963 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
964 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
965 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
966 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
967 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
968 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
969 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
970 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
971 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
972 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
973 Custom Block contextual link #4390
974 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
975 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
976 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
977 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
978 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
979 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
980 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
981 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
982 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
983 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
984 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881

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