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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 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
203 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
204 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
205 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
206 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
207 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
208 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
209 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
210 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
211 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
212 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
213 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
214 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
215 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
216 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
217 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
218 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
219 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
220 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
221 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
222 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
223 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
224 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
225 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
226 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
227 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
228 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
229 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
230 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
231 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
232 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
233 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
234 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
235 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
236 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
237 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
238 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
239 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
240 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
241 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
242 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
243 Create a printable Status Report #5821
244 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
245 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
246 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
247 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
248 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
249 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
250 [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
251 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
252 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
253 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
254 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
255 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
256 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
257 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
258 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
259 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
260 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
261 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
262 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
263 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
264 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
265 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
266 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
267 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
268 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
269 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
270 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
271 Search terms along with nodes #3850
272 [SR] Better/safer file type validation #3830
273 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
274 'Manage files' view sometimes shows incorrect filename #3507
275 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
276 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
277 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
278 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
279 [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
280 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
281 Comment administration improvements #2919
282 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
283 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
284 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
285 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
286 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
287 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
288 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
289 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
290 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
291 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
292 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
293 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
294 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
295 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
296 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
297 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
298 [UX] Layouts: Allow menu "source" to be changed from within any menu block #3820
299 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
300 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529

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