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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] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
202 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
203 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
204 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
205 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
206 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
207 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
208 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
209 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
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 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
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 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
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 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
220 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
221 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
222 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
223 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
224 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
225 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
226 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
227 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
228 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
229 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
230 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
231 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
232 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
233 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
234 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
235 [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
236 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
237 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
238 [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
239 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
240 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
241 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
242 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
243 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
244 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
245 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
246 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
247 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
248 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
249 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
250 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
251 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
252 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
253 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
254 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
255 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
256 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
257 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
258 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
259 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
260 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
261 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
262 [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
263 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
264 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
265 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
266 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
267 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
268 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
269 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
270 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
271 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
272 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
273 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
274 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
275 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
276 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
277 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
278 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
279 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
280 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
281 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
282 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
283 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
284 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
285 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
286 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
287 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
288 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
289 Use config for color module palettes #2554
290 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
291 [D10] Invoke hook after a site install is complete #5876
292 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
293 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
294 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
295 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
296 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
297 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
298 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
299 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
300 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789

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