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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 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
202 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
203 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
204 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
205 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
206 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
207 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
208 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
209 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
210 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
211 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
212 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
213 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
214 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
215 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
216 [D8] Autosave content #3426
217 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
218 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
219 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
220 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
221 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
222 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
223 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
224 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
225 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
226 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
227 Create a printable Status Report #5821
228 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
229 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
230 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
231 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
232 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
233 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
234 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
235 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
236 Add layouts into the search index #5128
237 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
238 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
239 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
240 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
241 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
242 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
243 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
244 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
245 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
246 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
247 Showcase core features during install #4138
248 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
249 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
250 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
251 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
252 Better Book navigation links #4879
253 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
254 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
255 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
256 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
257 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
258 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
259 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
260 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
261 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
262 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
263 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
264 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
265 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
266 [DX] Make certain field values and entity properties available during save. #2032
267 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
268 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
269 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
270 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
271 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
272 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
273 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
274 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
275 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
276 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
277 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
278 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
279 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
280 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
281 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
282 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
283 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
284 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
285 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
286 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
287 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
288 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
289 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
290 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
291 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
292 [UX] CKEditor/Rich text editor image sizing needs to be optional. #2010
293 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
294 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
295 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
296 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
297 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
298 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
299 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
300 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737

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