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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 16
3 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 14
4 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 13
5 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 13
6 Add option to globally disable comments on a content type. #3016 12
7 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 10
8 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 7
9 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
10 Add a site architecture report #4691 6
11 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
12 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
13 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
14 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 5
15 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 4
16 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
17 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 4
18 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
19 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
20 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
21 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 3
22 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
23 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
24 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
25 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
26 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
27 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
28 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
29 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
30 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
31 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 2
32 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
33 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
34 Required revision messages #4302 2
35 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
36 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
37 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
38 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
39 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
40 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
41 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
42 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
43 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
44 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
45 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
46 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 1
47 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
48 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
49 Make some block settings global #3805 1
50 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
51 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
52 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
53 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
54 I don't want default content #5587 1
55 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
56 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
57 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 1
58 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
59 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
60 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
61 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
62 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
63 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
64 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
65 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 1
66 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
67 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
68 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
69 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
70 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
71 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
72 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
73 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
74 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
75 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
76 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
77 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
78 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
79 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
80 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
81 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
82 Add support for tokens in the file field names and paths (File Field Paths module in core) #1440
83 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
84 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
85 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
86 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
87 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
88 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
89 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
90 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
91 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
92 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
93 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
94 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
95 Allow core libraries to be served via CDN #1593
96 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
97 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
98 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
99 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
100 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262

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