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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 permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
203 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
204 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
205 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
206 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
207 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
208 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
209 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
210 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
211 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
212 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
213 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
214 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
215 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
216 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
217 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
218 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
219 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
220 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
221 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
222 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
223 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
224 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
225 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
226 Add layouts into the search index #5128
227 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
228 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
229 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
230 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
231 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
232 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
233 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
234 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
235 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
236 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
237 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
238 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
239 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
240 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
241 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
242 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
243 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
244 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
245 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
246 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
247 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
248 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
249 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
250 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
251 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
252 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
253 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
254 Create "Current Node" block #5774
255 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
256 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
257 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
258 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
259 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
260 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
261 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
262 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
263 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
264 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
265 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
266 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
267 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
268 Better Book navigation links #4879
269 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
270 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
271 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
272 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
273 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
274 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
275 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
276 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
277 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
278 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
279 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
280 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
281 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
282 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
283 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
284 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
285 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
286 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
287 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
288 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
289 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
290 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
291 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
292 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
293 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
294 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
295 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
296 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
297 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
298 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
299 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
300 Seventy two theme #5928

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