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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 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
202 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
203 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
204 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
205 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
206 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
207 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
208 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
209 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
210 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
211 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
212 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
213 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
214 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
215 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
216 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
217 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
218 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
219 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
220 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
221 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
222 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
223 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
224 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
225 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
226 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
227 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
228 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
229 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
230 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
231 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
232 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
233 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
234 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
235 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
236 [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
237 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
238 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
239 [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
240 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
241 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
242 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
243 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
244 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
245 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
246 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
247 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
248 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
249 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
250 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
251 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
252 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
253 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
254 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
255 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
256 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
257 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
258 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
259 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
260 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
261 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
262 Add global site logo token #5871
263 [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
264 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
265 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
266 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
267 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
268 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
269 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
270 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
271 Trim textfields? #6386
272 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
273 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
274 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
275 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
276 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
277 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
278 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
279 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
280 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
281 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
282 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
283 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
284 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
285 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
286 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
287 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
288 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
289 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
290 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
291 Use config for color module palettes #2554
292 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
293 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
294 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
295 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
296 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
297 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
298 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
299 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
300 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390

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