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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] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
202 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
203 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
204 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
205 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
206 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
207 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
208 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
209 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
210 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
211 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
212 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
213 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
214 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
215 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
216 Showcase core features during install #4138
217 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
218 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
219 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
220 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
221 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
222 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
223 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
224 [CMI] Export/Import an entire content type (or other entity type) with its fields all at once #408
225 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
226 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
227 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
228 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
229 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
230 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
231 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
232 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
233 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
234 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
235 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
236 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
237 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
238 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
239 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
240 [UX] Idea: Bigger "required" indicators for fields (a red ❌ next to the field) plus a red focus "halo" around the field. #5505
241 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
242 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
243 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
244 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
245 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
246 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
247 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
248 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
249 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
250 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
251 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
252 Remove grippie; use CSS "resize" property #340
253 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
254 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
255 Create "Current Node" block #5774
256 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
257 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
258 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
259 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
260 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
261 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
262 [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
263 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
264 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
265 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
266 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
267 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
268 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
269 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
270 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
271 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
272 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
273 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
274 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
275 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
276 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
277 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
278 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
279 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
280 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
281 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
282 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
283 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
284 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
285 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
286 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
287 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
288 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
289 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
290 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
291 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
292 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
293 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
294 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
295 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
296 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
297 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
298 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
299 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
300 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952

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