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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] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
202 [D9] Users must verify email when changing user email addresses #5210
203 [D8] Token: Add "Safe tokens", and expose them in the admin UI #4755
204 [PS] Set cache lifetime to 1 year for static assets #3937
205 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
206 [WP][SR] Dedicated "Privacy & security" section under "Configuration" #3624
207 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
208 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
209 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
210 Allow default/required settings on multilingual ("Language") fields #4322
211 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
212 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
213 Move "Expanded" option for Menu Items to Block settings #5428
214 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
215 [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
216 Link module: validate internal links and ensure protocol-less URLs can pass validation #5000
217 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
218 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
219 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
220 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
221 Add option to Views for hiding empty blocks #3411
222 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
223 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
224 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
225 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
226 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
227 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
228 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
229 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
230 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
231 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
232 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
233 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
234 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
235 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
236 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
237 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
238 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
239 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
240 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
241 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
242 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
243 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
244 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
245 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
246 VBO: option for separate button per action & option to override labels #802
247 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
248 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
249 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
250 Trim textfields? #6386
251 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
252 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
253 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
254 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
255 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
256 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
257 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
258 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
259 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
260 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
261 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
262 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
263 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
264 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
265 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
266 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
267 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
268 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
269 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
270 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
271 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
272 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
273 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
274 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
275 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
276 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
277 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
278 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
279 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
280 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
281 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
282 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
283 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
284 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
285 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
286 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
287 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
288 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
289 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
290 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
291 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
292 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
293 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
294 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
295 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
296 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
297 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
298 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
299 [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
300 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345

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