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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] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
202 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
203 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
204 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
205 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
206 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
207 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
208 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
209 Content creation page cleanup #202
210 Comment administration improvements #2919
211 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
212 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
213 Menu router refactoring #2400
214 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
215 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
216 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
217 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
218 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
219 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
220 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
221 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
222 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
223 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
224 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
225 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
226 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
227 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
228 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
229 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
230 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
231 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
232 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
233 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
234 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
235 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
236 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
237 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
238 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
239 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
240 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
241 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
242 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
243 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
244 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
245 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
246 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
247 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
248 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
249 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
250 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
251 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
252 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
253 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
254 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
255 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
256 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
257 Allow regions titles #2647
258 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
259 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
260 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
261 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
262 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
263 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
264 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
265 [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
266 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
267 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
268 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
269 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
270 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
271 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
272 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
273 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
274 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
275 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
276 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
277 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
278 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
279 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
280 Search terms along with nodes #3850
281 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
282 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
283 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
284 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
285 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
286 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
287 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
288 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
289 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
290 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
291 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
292 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
293 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
294 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
295 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
296 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
297 Add function that returns default config #3251
298 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
299 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
300 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875

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