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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 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
202 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
203 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
204 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
205 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
206 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
207 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
208 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
209 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
210 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
211 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
212 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
213 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
214 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
215 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
216 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
217 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
218 Add global site logo token #5871
219 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
220 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
221 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
222 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
223 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
224 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
225 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
226 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
227 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
228 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
229 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
230 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
231 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
232 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
233 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
234 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
235 uuid and entity import / export #890
236 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
237 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
238 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
239 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
240 Add HTML5 Placeholder to form inputs #3561
241 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
242 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
243 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
244 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
245 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
246 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
247 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
248 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
249 [D7] Support summaries in CKEditor or introduce a teaser break plugin #1222
250 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
251 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
252 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
253 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
254 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
255 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
256 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
257 [UX] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
258 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
259 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
260 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
261 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
262 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
263 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
264 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
265 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
266 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
267 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
268 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
269 Rename default Contact form category #4703
270 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
271 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
272 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
273 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
274 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
275 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
276 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
277 [UX] Make all visibility conditions available at all times (and automatically set appropriate paths, contexts and context relationships). #1815
278 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
279 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
280 Add a views filter/argument for Term Depth #2666
281 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
282 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
283 Apply image style to default picture #4976
284 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
285 [UX] Streamline the process of disabling and uninstalling modules (a.k.a. "Uninstallation queue"). #2532
286 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
287 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
288 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
289 Layout UI : Allow adding visibility conditions for Node:NID and Node:Type for paths other than node/% #1997
290 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
291 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
292 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
293 Comment administration improvements #2919
294 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
295 Add a new core theme #5175
296 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
297 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
298 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
299 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
300 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109

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