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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 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
202 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
203 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
204 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
205 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
206 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
207 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
208 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
209 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
210 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
211 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
212 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
213 [UX] Add content title match as search relevancy factor #3517
214 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
215 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
216 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
217 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
218 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
219 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
220 Remove syslog module from core #1260
221 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
222 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
223 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
224 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
225 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
226 Allow altering image style urls #5745
227 [UX] Contact module: Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the admin UI - allow customizing the label of the field in the public-facing form #5992
228 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
229 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
230 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
231 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
232 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
233 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
234 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
235 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
236 [UX][DX] Show location of config files on status report #3839
237 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
238 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
239 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
240 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
241 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
242 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
243 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
244 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
245 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
246 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
247 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
248 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
249 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
250 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
251 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
252 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
253 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
254 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
255 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
256 [DX] Introduce a server-side conditional system (to possibly replace `#states`) #5750
257 Add 'Field HTML Trim' to core #6001
258 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
259 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
260 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
261 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
262 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
263 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
264 [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
265 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
266 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
267 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
268 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
269 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
270 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
271 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
272 One click install for digitalocean #5628
273 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
274 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
275 Allow Views to be grouped in Admin Menu #5895
276 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
277 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
278 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
279 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
280 Add layouts into the search index #5128
281 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
282 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
283 Comment administration improvements #2919
284 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
285 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
286 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
287 [UX][DX] Status report page: Provide filters/categories that apply to various personas #5758
288 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
289 Introduce some missing permissions that allow global actions on files #6012
290 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
291 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
292 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
293 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
294 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
295 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
296 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
297 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
298 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
299 Better Book navigation links #4879
300 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808

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