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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
201 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
202 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
203 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
204 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
205 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
206 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
207 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
208 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
209 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
210 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
211 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
212 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
213 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
214 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
215 [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
216 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
217 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
218 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
219 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
220 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
221 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
222 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
223 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
224 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
225 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
226 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
227 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
228 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
229 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
230 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
231 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
232 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
233 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
234 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
235 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
236 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
237 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
238 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
239 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
240 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
241 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
242 [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
243 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
244 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
245 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
246 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
247 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
248 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
249 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
250 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
251 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
252 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
253 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
254 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
255 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
256 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
257 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
258 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
259 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
260 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
261 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
262 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
263 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
264 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
265 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
266 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
267 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
268 [D10] Invoke hook after a site install is complete #5876
269 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
270 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
271 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
272 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
273 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
274 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
275 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
276 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
277 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
278 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
279 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
280 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
281 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
282 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
283 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
284 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
285 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
286 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
287 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
288 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
289 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
290 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
291 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
292 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
293 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
294 Use config for color module palettes #2554
295 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
296 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
297 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
298 [UX] When a new content type is created, automatically assign permissions to the "Editor" role #5885
299 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
300 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172

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