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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] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
902 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
903 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
904 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
905 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
906 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
907 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
908 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
909 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
910 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
911 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
912 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
913 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
914 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
915 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
916 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
917 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
918 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
919 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
920 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
921 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
922 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
923 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
924 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
925 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
926 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
927 Create a printable Status Report #5821
928 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
929 Remove syslog module from core #1260
930 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
931 Custom Block contextual link #4390
932 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
933 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
934 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
935 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
936 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
937 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
938 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
939 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
940 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
941 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
942 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
943 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
944 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
945 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
946 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
947 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
948 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
949 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
950 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
951 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
952 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
953 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
954 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
955 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
956 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
957 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
958 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
959 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
960 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
961 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
962 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
963 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
964 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
965 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
966 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
967 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
968 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
969 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
970 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
971 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
972 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
973 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
974 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
975 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
976 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
977 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
978 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
979 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
980 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
981 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
982 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
983 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
984 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
985 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
986 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705

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