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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 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
202 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
203 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
204 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
205 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
206 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
207 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
208 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
209 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
210 Add layouts into the search index #5128
211 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
212 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
213 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
214 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
215 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
216 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
217 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
218 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
219 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
220 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
221 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
222 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
223 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
224 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
225 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
226 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
227 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
228 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
229 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
230 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
231 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
232 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
233 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
234 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
235 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
236 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
237 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
238 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
239 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
240 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
241 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
242 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
243 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
244 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
245 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
246 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
247 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
248 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
249 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
250 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
251 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
252 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
253 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
254 Better Book navigation links #4879
255 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
256 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
257 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
258 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
259 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
260 Redirects write to json files? #4001
261 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
262 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
263 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
264 uuid and entity import / export #890
265 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
266 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
267 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
268 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
269 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
270 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
271 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
272 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
273 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
274 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
275 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
276 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
277 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
278 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
279 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
280 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
281 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
282 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
283 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
284 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
285 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
286 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
287 Custom Block contextual link #4390
288 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
289 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
290 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
291 More useful tags for views #6268
292 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
293 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
294 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
295 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
296 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
297 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
298 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
299 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
300 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852

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