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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] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
202 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
203 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
204 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
205 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
206 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
207 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
208 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
209 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
210 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
211 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
212 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
213 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
214 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
215 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
216 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
217 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
218 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
219 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
220 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
221 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
222 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
223 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
224 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
225 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
226 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
227 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
228 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
229 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
230 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
231 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
232 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
233 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
234 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
235 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
236 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
237 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
238 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
239 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
240 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
241 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
242 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
243 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
244 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
245 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
246 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
247 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
248 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
249 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
250 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
251 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
252 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
253 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
254 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
255 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
256 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
257 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
258 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
259 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
260 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
261 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
262 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
263 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
264 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
265 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
266 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
267 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
268 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
269 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
270 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
271 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
272 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
273 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
274 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
275 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
276 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
277 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
278 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
279 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
280 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
281 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
282 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
283 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
284 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
285 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
286 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
287 [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
288 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
289 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
290 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
291 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
292 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
293 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
294 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
295 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
296 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
297 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
298 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
299 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
300 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982

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