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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 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
202 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
203 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
204 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
205 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
206 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
207 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
208 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
209 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
210 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
211 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
212 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
213 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
214 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
215 Add layouts into the search index #5128
216 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
217 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
218 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
219 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
220 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
221 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
222 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
223 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
224 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
225 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
226 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
227 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
228 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
229 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
230 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
231 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
232 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
233 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
234 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
235 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
236 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
237 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
238 Redirects write to json files? #4001
239 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
240 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
241 uuid and entity import / export #890
242 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
243 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
244 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
245 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
246 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
247 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
248 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
249 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
250 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
251 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
252 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
253 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
254 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
255 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
256 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
257 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
258 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
259 Double click prevention #6393
260 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
261 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
262 Better Book navigation links #4879
263 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
264 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
265 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
266 Custom Block contextual link #4390
267 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
268 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
269 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
270 [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
271 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
272 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
273 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
274 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
275 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
276 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
277 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
278 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
279 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
280 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
281 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
282 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
283 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
284 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
285 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
286 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
287 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
288 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
289 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
290 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
291 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
292 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
293 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
294 [UX] User "locked" in the authorize.php page #2580
295 Get rid of all Backdrop markers in HTML page source #4817
296 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
297 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
298 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
299 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
300 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592

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