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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 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
202 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
203 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
204 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
205 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
206 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
207 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
208 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
209 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
210 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
211 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
212 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
213 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
214 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
215 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
216 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
217 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
218 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
219 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
220 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
221 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
222 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
223 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
224 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
225 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
226 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
227 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
228 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
229 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
230 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
231 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
232 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
233 Add layouts into the search index #5128
234 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
235 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
236 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
237 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
238 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
239 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
240 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
241 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
242 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
243 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
244 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
245 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
246 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
247 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
248 [UX] Layout path selection: Make it more user friendly #2618
249 Better Book navigation links #4879
250 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
251 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
252 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
253 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
254 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
255 Redirects write to json files? #4001
256 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
257 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
258 uuid and entity import / export #890
259 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
260 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
261 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
262 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
263 Use database independent calls to initialize the testing cache. #2888
264 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
265 [UX] Redirect from system path to alias (GlobalRedirect in core) #2871
266 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
267 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
268 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
269 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
270 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
271 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
272 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
273 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
274 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
275 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
276 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
277 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
278 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
279 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
280 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
281 [UX] List modules that need to be enabled on the config sync page #2604
282 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
283 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
284 Custom Block contextual link #4390
285 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
286 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
287 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
288 [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
289 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
290 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
291 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
292 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
293 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
294 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
295 [UX] Allow non-technical people to grab a text export of key information about their site - for troubleshooting requests #5461
296 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
297 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
298 [UX] Fix hook_update_dependencies() so it won't skip necessary updates #2852
299 [D9] Add 'published' timestamp to nodes #5062
300 Allow altering image style urls #5745

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