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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 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
202 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
203 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
204 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
205 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
206 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
207 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
208 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
209 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
210 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
211 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
212 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
213 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
214 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
215 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
216 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
217 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
218 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
219 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
220 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
221 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
222 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
223 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
224 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
225 [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
226 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
227 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
228 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
229 Add layouts into the search index #5128
230 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
231 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
232 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
233 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
234 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
235 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
236 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
237 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
238 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
239 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
240 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
241 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
242 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
243 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
244 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
245 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
246 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
247 Better Book navigation links #4879
248 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
249 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
250 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
251 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
252 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
253 Redirects write to json files? #4001
254 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
255 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
256 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
257 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
258 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
259 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
260 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
261 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
262 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
263 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
264 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
265 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
266 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
267 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
268 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
269 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
270 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
271 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
272 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
273 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
274 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
275 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
276 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
277 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
278 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
279 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
280 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
281 Custom Block contextual link #4390
282 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
283 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
284 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
285 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
286 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
287 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
288 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
289 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
290 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
291 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
292 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
293 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
294 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
295 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
296 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
297 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
298 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
299 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
300 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983

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