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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 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
202 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
203 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
204 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
205 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
206 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
207 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
208 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
209 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
210 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
211 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
212 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
213 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
214 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
215 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
216 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
217 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
218 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
219 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
220 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
221 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
222 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
223 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
224 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
225 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
226 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
227 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
228 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
229 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
230 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
231 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
232 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
233 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
234 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
235 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
236 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
237 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
238 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
239 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
240 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
241 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
242 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
243 Add global site logo token #5871
244 [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
245 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
246 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
247 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
248 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
249 [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
250 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
251 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
252 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
253 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
254 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
255 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
256 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
257 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
258 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
259 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
260 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
261 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
262 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
263 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
264 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
265 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
266 [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
267 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
268 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
269 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
270 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
271 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
272 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
273 Use config for color module palettes #2554
274 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
275 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
276 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
277 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
278 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
279 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
280 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
281 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
282 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
283 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
284 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
285 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
286 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
287 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
288 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
289 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
290 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
291 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
292 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
293 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
294 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
295 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
296 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
297 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
298 [D8] Autosave content #3426
299 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
300 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985

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