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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
1 Field group functionality in core #647 17
2 [META] Automatic Updates #2018 17
3 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 15
4 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 14
5 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 14
6 Add option to globally disable comments on a content type. #3016 13
7 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 12
8 Add a site architecture report #4691 7
9 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
10 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
11 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
12 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 6
13 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
14 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
15 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 5
16 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 5
17 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
18 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
19 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 4
20 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 3
21 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
22 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
23 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
24 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
25 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
26 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
27 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
28 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
29 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
30 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
31 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
32 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 2
33 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
34 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
35 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
36 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
37 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
38 Required revision messages #4302 2
39 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
40 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
41 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
42 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 2
43 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
44 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
45 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
46 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
47 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
48 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
49 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
50 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
51 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
52 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
53 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
54 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
55 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
56 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
57 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
58 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
59 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
60 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
61 Make some block settings global #3805 1
62 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
63 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
64 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
65 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
66 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
67 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
68 I don't want default content #5587 1
69 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
70 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
71 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
72 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
73 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
74 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
75 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
76 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
77 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
78 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
79 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
80 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
81 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
82 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
83 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
84 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
85 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
86 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
87 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
88 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
89 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
90 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
91 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
92 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
93 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
94 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
95 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
96 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
97 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
98 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
99 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
100 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711

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