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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 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
202 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
203 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
204 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
205 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
206 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
207 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
208 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
209 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
210 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
211 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
212 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
213 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
214 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
215 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
216 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
217 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
218 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
219 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
220 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
221 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
222 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
223 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
224 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
225 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
226 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
227 Add layouts into the search index #5128
228 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
229 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
230 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
231 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
232 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
233 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
234 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
235 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
236 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
237 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
238 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
239 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
240 Double click prevention #6393
241 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
242 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
243 Better Book navigation links #4879
244 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
245 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
246 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
247 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
248 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
249 Redirects write to json files? #4001
250 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
251 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
252 uuid and entity import / export #890
253 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
254 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
255 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
256 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
257 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
258 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
259 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
260 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
261 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
262 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
263 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
264 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
265 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
266 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
267 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
268 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
269 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
270 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
271 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
272 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
273 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
274 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
275 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
276 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
277 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
278 Custom Block contextual link #4390
279 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
280 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
281 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
282 [UX] Reflect the status of the comment settings in the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" tabs and offer connect-the-dots links to enable them. #1274
283 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
284 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
285 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
286 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
287 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
288 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
289 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
290 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
291 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
292 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
293 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
294 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
295 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
296 [UX] Contact module: Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the admin UI - allow customizing the label of the field in the public-facing form #5992
297 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
298 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
299 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
300 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041

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