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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 visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
902 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
903 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
904 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
905 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
906 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
907 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
908 Content creation page cleanup #202
909 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
910 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
911 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
912 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
913 Rename default Contact form category #4703
914 Seventy two theme #5928
915 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
916 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
917 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
918 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
919 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
920 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
921 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
922 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
923 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
924 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
925 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
926 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
927 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
928 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
929 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
930 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
931 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
932 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
933 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
934 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
935 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
936 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
937 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
938 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
939 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
940 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
941 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
942 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
943 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
944 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
945 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
946 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
947 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
948 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
949 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
950 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
951 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
952 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
953 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
954 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
955 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
956 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
957 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
958 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
959 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
960 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
961 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
962 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
963 [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
964 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
965 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
966 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
967 Add layouts into the search index #5128
968 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
969 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
970 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
971 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
972 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
973 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
974 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
975 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
976 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
977 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
978 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
979 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
980 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
981 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
982 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575

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