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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 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
202 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
203 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
204 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
205 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
206 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
207 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
208 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
209 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
210 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
211 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
212 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
213 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
214 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
215 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
216 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
217 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
218 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
219 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
220 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
221 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
222 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
223 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
224 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
225 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
226 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
227 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
228 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
229 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
230 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
231 [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
232 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
233 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
234 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
235 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
236 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
237 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
238 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
239 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
240 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
241 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
242 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
243 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
244 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
245 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
246 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
247 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
248 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
249 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
250 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
251 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
252 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
253 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
254 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
255 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
256 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
257 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
258 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
259 Add global site logo token #5871
260 [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
261 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
262 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
263 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
264 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
265 [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
266 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
267 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
268 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
269 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
270 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
271 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
272 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
273 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
274 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
275 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
276 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
277 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
278 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
279 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
280 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
281 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
282 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
283 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
284 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
285 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
286 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
287 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
288 Use config for color module palettes #2554
289 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
290 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
291 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
292 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
293 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
294 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
295 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
296 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
297 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
298 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
299 [WP] Media Library #3203
300 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449

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