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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 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
202 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
203 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
204 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
205 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
206 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
207 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
208 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
209 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
210 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
211 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
212 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
213 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
214 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
215 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
216 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
217 Create a printable Status Report #5821
218 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
219 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
220 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
221 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
222 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
223 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
224 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
225 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
226 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
227 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
228 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
229 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
230 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
231 Rename default Contact form category #4703
232 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
233 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
234 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
235 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
236 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
237 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
238 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
239 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
240 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
241 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
242 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
243 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
244 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
245 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
246 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
247 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
248 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
249 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
250 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
251 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
252 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
253 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
254 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
255 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
256 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
257 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
258 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
259 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
260 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
261 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
262 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
263 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
264 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
265 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
266 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
267 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
268 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
269 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
270 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
271 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
272 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
273 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
274 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
275 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
276 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
277 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
278 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
279 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
280 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
281 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
282 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
283 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
284 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
285 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
286 Add layouts into the search index #5128
287 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
288 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
289 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
290 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
291 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
292 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
293 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
294 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
295 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
296 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
297 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
298 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
299 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
300 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397

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