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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 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
202 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
203 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
204 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
205 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
206 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
207 Create "Current Node" block #5774
208 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
209 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
210 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
211 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
212 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
213 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
214 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
215 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
216 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
217 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
218 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
219 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
220 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
221 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
222 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
223 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
224 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
225 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
226 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
227 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
228 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
229 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
230 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
231 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
232 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
233 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
234 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
235 Add layouts into the search index #5128
236 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
237 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
238 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
239 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
240 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
241 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
242 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808
243 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
244 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
245 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
246 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
247 [DX] backdrop_process_states: Introduce a new `primary`/`secondary` set of states for submit buttons #3441
248 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
249 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
250 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
251 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
252 Better Book navigation links #4879
253 Seventy two theme #5928
254 Rename default Contact form category #4703
255 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
256 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
257 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
258 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
259 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
260 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
261 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
262 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
263 Trim textfields? #6386
264 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
265 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
266 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
267 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
268 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
269 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
270 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
271 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
272 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
273 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
274 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
275 uuid and entity import / export #890
276 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
277 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
278 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
279 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
280 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
281 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
282 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
283 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
284 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
285 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
286 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
287 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
288 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
289 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
290 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
291 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
292 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
293 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
294 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
295 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
296 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
297 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
298 Add function that returns default config #3251
299 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
300 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885

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