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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] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
202 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
203 [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
204 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
205 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
206 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
207 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
208 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
209 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
210 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
211 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
212 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
213 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
214 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
215 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
216 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
217 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
218 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
219 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
220 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
221 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
222 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
223 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
224 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
225 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
226 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
227 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
228 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
229 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
230 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
231 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
232 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
233 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
234 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
235 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
236 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
237 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
238 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
239 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
240 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
241 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
242 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
243 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
244 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
245 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
246 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
247 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
248 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
249 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
250 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
251 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
252 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
253 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
254 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
255 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
256 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
257 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
258 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
259 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
260 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
261 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
262 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
263 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
264 [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
265 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
266 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
267 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
268 uuid and entity import / export #890
269 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
270 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
271 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
272 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
273 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
274 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
275 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
276 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
277 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
278 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
279 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
280 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
281 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
282 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
283 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
284 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
285 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
286 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
287 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
288 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
289 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
290 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
291 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
292 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
293 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
294 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
295 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
296 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
297 [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
298 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
299 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
300 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243

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