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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] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
902 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
903 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
904 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
905 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
906 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
907 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
908 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
909 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
910 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
911 Rename default Contact form category #4703
912 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
913 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
914 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
915 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
916 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
917 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
918 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
919 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
920 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
921 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
922 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
923 Create a printable Status Report #5821
924 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
925 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
926 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
927 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
928 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
929 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
930 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
931 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
932 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
933 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
934 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
935 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
936 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
937 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
938 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
939 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
940 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
941 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
942 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
943 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
944 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
945 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
946 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
947 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
948 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
949 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
950 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
951 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
952 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
953 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
954 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
955 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
956 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
957 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
958 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
959 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
960 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
961 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
962 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
963 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
964 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
965 Add layouts into the search index #5128
966 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
967 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
968 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
969 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
970 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
971 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
972 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
973 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
974 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
975 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
976 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
977 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
978 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
979 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
980 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
981 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643

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