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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 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
202 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
203 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
204 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
205 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
206 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
207 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
208 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
209 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
210 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
211 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
212 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
213 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
214 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
215 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
216 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
217 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
218 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
219 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
220 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
221 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
222 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
223 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
224 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
225 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
226 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
227 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
228 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
229 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
230 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
231 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
232 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
233 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
234 Rename default Contact form category #4703
235 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
236 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
237 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
238 [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
239 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
240 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
241 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
242 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
243 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
244 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
245 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
246 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
247 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
248 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
249 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
250 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
251 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
252 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
253 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
254 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
255 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
256 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
257 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
258 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
259 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
260 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
261 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
262 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
263 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
264 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
265 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
266 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
267 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
268 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
269 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
270 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
271 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
272 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
273 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
274 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
275 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
276 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
277 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
278 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
279 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
280 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
281 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
282 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
283 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
284 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
285 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
286 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
287 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
288 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
289 Add layouts into the search index #5128
290 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
291 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
292 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
293 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
294 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
295 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
296 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
297 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
298 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
299 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
300 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090

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