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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 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
902 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
903 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
904 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
905 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
906 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
907 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
908 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
909 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
910 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
911 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
912 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
913 Create a printable Status Report #5821
914 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
915 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
916 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
917 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
918 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
919 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
920 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
921 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
922 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
923 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
924 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
925 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
926 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
927 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
928 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
929 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
930 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
931 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
932 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
933 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
934 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
935 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
936 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
937 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
938 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
939 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
940 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
941 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
942 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
943 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
944 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
945 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
946 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
947 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
948 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
949 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
950 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
951 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
952 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
953 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
954 Add layouts into the search index #5128
955 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
956 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
957 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
958 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
959 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
960 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
961 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
962 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
963 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
964 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
965 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
966 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
967 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
968 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
969 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
970 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
971 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
972 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
973 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
974 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
975 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
976 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
977 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
978 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
979 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
980 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
981 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896

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