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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 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
202 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
203 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
204 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
205 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
206 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
207 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
208 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
209 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
210 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
211 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
212 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
213 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
214 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
215 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
216 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
217 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
218 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
219 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
220 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
221 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
222 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
223 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
224 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
225 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
226 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
227 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
228 More useful tags for views #6268
229 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
230 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
231 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
232 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
233 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
234 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
235 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
236 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
237 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
238 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
239 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
240 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
241 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
242 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
243 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
244 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
245 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
246 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
247 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
248 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
249 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
250 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
251 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
252 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
253 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
254 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
255 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
256 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
257 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
258 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
259 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
260 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
261 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
262 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
263 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
264 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
265 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
266 Create a printable Status Report #5821
267 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
268 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
269 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
270 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
271 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
272 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
273 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
274 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
275 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
276 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
277 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
278 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
279 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
280 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
281 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
282 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
283 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
284 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
285 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
286 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
287 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
288 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
289 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
290 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
291 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
292 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
293 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
294 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
295 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
296 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
297 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
298 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
299 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
300 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440

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