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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 Use config for color module palettes #2554
202 [UX] Rename name "Filtered HTML" input format to "Basic" #1188
203 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
204 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
205 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
206 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
207 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
208 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
209 Config management diff: Rename "Old" and "New" to something more meaningful #3221
210 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
211 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
212 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
213 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
214 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
215 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
216 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
217 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
218 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
219 [D8][DX] Add Modernizr to core. #1009
220 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
221 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
222 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
223 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
224 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
225 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
226 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
227 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
228 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
229 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
230 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
231 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
232 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
233 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
234 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
235 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
236 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
237 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
238 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
239 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
240 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
241 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
242 SMTP / PHPMailer module in core #3199
243 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
244 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
245 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
246 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
247 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
248 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
249 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
250 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
251 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
252 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
253 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
254 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
255 uuid and entity import / export #890
256 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
257 [UX] Reduce Update Status module's nagging messages on admin/* pages #5083
258 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
259 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
260 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
261 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
262 [DX][BC] Deprecate `module_exists()` and add a `project_exists()` function #2337
263 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
264 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
265 Create "Current Node" block #5774
266 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
267 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
268 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
269 [DX] Form API: Allow number fields to specify an array of suggested values (#options) #5285
270 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
271 [UX] Add a new pageless node above the "Promoted Content" block on Home page #4849
272 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
273 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
274 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
275 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
276 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
277 Store entity bundle in comment table #2046
278 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
279 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
280 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
281 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475
282 Redirects write to json files? #4001
283 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
284 Status Report should flag duplicate module installs #5464
285 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
286 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
287 Disable unused layout templates #5068
288 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
289 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
290 Add an upgrade path from block class module backdrop core. #3682
291 [UX] Add an admin preview of the type of menu for menu blocks in the "Manage blocks" page. #2325
292 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
293 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
294 [D8][UX] Merge Special Menu Items module functionality in core (allow <nolink> and <separator> menu items). #1840
295 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
296 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
297 Add Claro administration theme to core #5241
298 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
299 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
300 All config_*() functions should accept `$type` for consistency. #4821

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