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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 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
903 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
904 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
905 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
906 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
907 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
908 Add layouts into the search index #5128
909 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
910 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
911 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
912 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
913 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
914 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
915 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
916 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
917 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
918 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
919 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
920 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
921 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
922 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
923 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
924 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
925 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
926 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
927 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
928 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
929 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
930 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
931 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
932 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
933 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
934 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
935 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
936 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
937 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
938 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
939 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
940 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
941 [D8] Autosave content #3426
942 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
943 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
944 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
945 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
946 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
947 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
948 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
949 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
950 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
951 Better Book navigation links #4879
952 [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
953 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
954 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
955 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
956 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
957 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
958 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
959 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
960 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
961 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
962 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
963 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
964 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
965 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
966 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
967 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
968 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
969 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
970 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
971 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
972 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
973 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
974 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
975 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
976 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
977 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
978 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
979 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
980 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
981 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
982 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
983 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737

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