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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] 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
202 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
203 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
204 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
205 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
206 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
207 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
208 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
209 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
210 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
211 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
212 Cache settings via admin section #1434
213 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
214 Create "Current Node" block #5774
215 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
216 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
217 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
218 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
219 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
220 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
221 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
222 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
223 authorize.php should be used for all Installer module downloads/installs #2271
224 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
225 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
226 [DX] Make views query output easier to read with indentation & line breaks #1590
227 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
228 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
229 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
230 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
231 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
232 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
233 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
234 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
235 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
236 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
237 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
238 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
239 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
240 [UX] add an exposed filter for email address to the user account list #2512
241 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
242 Backdrop release procedure enhancement #1987
243 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
244 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
245 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
246 Add a simple way in core to define private and public access for nodes/entities. #1407
247 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
248 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
249 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
250 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
251 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
252 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
253 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
254 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
255 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
256 Add option to set a maximum age of log messages #2243
257 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
258 [UX] Have a "Contact" menu item be enabled and added to the primary navigation by default when enabling contact.module. #1572
259 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
260 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
261 [UX] Project Browser: Move the pages where one can **MANAGE** installed modules/themes/layouts as separate primary tabs under a single top-level menu item. #1780
262 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
263 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
264 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
265 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
266 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
267 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
268 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
269 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
270 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
271 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
272 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
273 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
274 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
275 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
276 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
277 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
278 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
279 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
280 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
281 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
282 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
283 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
284 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
285 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
286 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
287 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
288 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
289 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
290 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
291 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
292 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
293 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
294 Seventy two theme #5928
295 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
296 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
297 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
298 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
299 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
300 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457

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