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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] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
202 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
203 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
204 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
205 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
206 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
207 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
208 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
209 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
210 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
211 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
212 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
213 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
214 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
215 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
216 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
217 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
218 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
219 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
220 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
221 [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
222 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
223 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
224 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
225 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
226 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
227 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
228 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
229 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
230 Trim textfields? #6386
231 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
232 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
233 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
234 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
235 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
236 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
237 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
238 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
239 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
240 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
241 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
242 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
243 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
244 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
245 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
246 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
247 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
248 Add global site logo token #5871
249 [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
250 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
251 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
252 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
253 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
254 [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
255 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
256 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
257 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
258 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
259 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
260 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
261 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
262 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
263 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
264 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
265 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
266 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
267 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
268 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
269 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
270 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
271 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
272 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
273 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
274 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
275 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
276 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
277 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
278 Use config for color module palettes #2554
279 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
280 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
281 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
282 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
283 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
284 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
285 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
286 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
287 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
288 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
289 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
290 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
291 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
292 Double click prevention #6393
293 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
294 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
295 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
296 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
297 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
298 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
299 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
300 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173

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