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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 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
202 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
203 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
204 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
205 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
206 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
207 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
208 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
209 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
210 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
211 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
212 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
213 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
214 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
215 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
216 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
217 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
218 Custom Block contextual link #4390
219 [UX] When uninstalling a module, list all things that will be lost (blocks, views, menus) in the confirmation page. #1624
220 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
221 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
222 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
223 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
224 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
225 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
226 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
227 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
228 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
229 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
230 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
231 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
232 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
233 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
234 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
235 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
236 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
237 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
238 Add support for tokens in the file field names and paths (File Field Paths module in core) #1440
239 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
240 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
241 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
242 VBO: Allow bulk enabling/disabling comments on existing content. #2297
243 [UX] Layouts: Visibility conditions (and contexts): Entity ID text fields with autocomplete fields (or entity browser?). #1822
244 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
245 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
246 Telemetry: Collect Internet Status At Time Of Install #5222
247 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
248 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
249 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
250 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
251 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
252 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
253 Allow core libraries to be served via CDN #1593
254 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
255 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
256 [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
257 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
258 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
259 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
260 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
261 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
262 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
263 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
264 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
265 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
266 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
267 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
268 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
269 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
270 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
271 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
272 Cache settings via admin section #1434
273 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
274 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
275 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
276 [UX] Decide when to add 'block' to the end of block admin titles, and do so consistently. #2255
277 Add an option (checkbox) in the layout settings for "Page title type" that enables/disables appending the " | [site-name]" part to the page <title>. #1790
278 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
279 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
280 [PS][D9] Dynamic Page Cache add in Backdrop core #5217
281 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
282 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
283 [A11Y] Native dark mode support (at least for the Seven admin theme) #4778
284 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
285 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
286 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
287 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
288 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
289 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
290 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
291 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
292 Evaluate the reasons for removal of the Trigger module from core. #2522
293 Create redirects for bulk alias delete #1993
294 [DX] Allow Config::get()/config_get() to specify a default - same as update_variable_get() #5453
295 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
296 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
297 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
298 'Unused' module detector #5020
299 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
300 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587

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