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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 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
202 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
203 Config management diff: Rename "Old" and "New" to something more meaningful #3221
204 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
205 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
206 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
207 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
208 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
209 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
210 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
211 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
212 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
213 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
214 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
215 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
216 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
217 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
218 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
219 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
220 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
221 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
222 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
223 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
224 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
225 Use config for color module palettes #2554
226 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
227 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
228 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
229 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
230 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
231 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
232 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
233 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
234 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
235 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
236 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
237 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
238 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
239 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
240 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
241 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
242 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
243 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
244 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
245 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
246 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
247 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
248 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
249 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
250 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
251 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
252 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
253 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
254 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
255 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
256 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
257 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
258 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
259 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
260 Create "Current Node" block #5774
261 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
262 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
263 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
264 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
265 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
266 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
267 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
268 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
269 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
270 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
271 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
272 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
273 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
274 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
275 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
276 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
277 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
278 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
279 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
280 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
281 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
282 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
283 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
284 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
285 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
286 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
287 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
288 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
289 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
290 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
291 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
292 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
293 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
294 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
295 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
296 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
297 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
298 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
299 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
300 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517

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