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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] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
202 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
203 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
204 [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
205 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
206 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
207 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
208 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
209 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
210 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
211 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
212 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
213 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
214 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
215 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
216 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
217 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
218 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
219 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
220 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
221 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
222 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
223 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
224 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
225 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
226 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
227 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
228 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
229 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
230 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
231 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
232 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
233 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
234 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
235 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
236 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
237 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
238 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
239 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
240 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
241 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
242 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
243 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
244 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
245 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
246 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
247 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
248 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
249 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
250 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
251 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
252 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
253 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
254 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
255 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
256 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
257 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
258 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
259 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
260 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
261 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
262 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
263 [UX] Automatically update the "Admin Content" view to include language field and exposed filter when more than one language is enabled for the site. #1625
264 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
265 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
266 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
267 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
268 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
269 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
270 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
271 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
272 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
273 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
274 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
275 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
276 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
277 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
278 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
279 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
280 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
281 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
282 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
283 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
284 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
285 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
286 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
287 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
288 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
289 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
290 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
291 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
292 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
293 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
294 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
295 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262
296 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
297 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
298 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
299 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
300 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536

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