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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
301 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
302 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
303 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
304 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
305 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
306 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
307 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
308 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
309 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
310 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
311 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
312 [D8] Manage form display: Allow managing form fields non-programmatically #5219
313 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
314 [DX] Form API #states: support 'regex' and 'less'/'greater' (than) for value comparison #4781
315 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
316 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
317 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
318 [UX] Views: Make the "Label for "Any" value" a text field and have it be configurable per view and per exposed filter within each view. #2033
319 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
320 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
321 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
322 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
323 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
324 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
325 [UX] Project installer: collapse met dependencies in the "Enable modules" step #5454
326 [DX][D8] Provide a mechanism to deprecate permissions #5030
327 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
328 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
329 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
330 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
331 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
332 Allow setting a default value for Alt and Title text in image fields #1439
333 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
334 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
335 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
336 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
337 [UX] Permissions page: Make permission groups rows collapsible/expandable. #1046
338 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
339 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
340 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
341 Text area with Plain text processing doesn't display line breaks #5515
342 [DX][D8] Allow entity types to specify canonical and additional URIs #5212
343 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
344 [UX] Menu link items should be kept in sync with their respective content titles #4759
345 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
346 Security: Consider adding an option to load public forms through AJAX. #1592
347 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
348 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
349 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
350 Remove syslog module from core #1260
351 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
352 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
353 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
354 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
355 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
356 [UX] Dashboard block to highlight recent and notable bug fixes or feature updates #5438
357 Add a link to the BackdropCMS.org page on module list for each module #5003
358 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
359 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
360 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
361 Trim textfields? #6386
362 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
363 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
364 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
365 Implement sub-path aliases - a.k.a.: `subpathauto` or `path_alias_xt` in core #1418
366 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
367 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
368 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
369 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
370 [UX] Token browser dialog: increase width (and height?). #1038
371 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
372 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
373 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
374 [DX][D9] Telemetry: gather Server Timing performance metrics #5183
375 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
376 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
377 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
378 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
379 [UX] Branding and Version info on Installation Screens #1584
380 Redirects write to json files? #4001
381 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
382 Do not allow modules to be enabled at all if they have conflicting config file names with any existing config. #1242
383 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
384 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
385 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
386 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
387 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
388 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
389 Apply image style to default picture #4976
390 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
391 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
392 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
393 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
394 Make 'gid' column in 'node_access' table VARCHAR #1396
395 Add Mailsystem 3.x delegator class to core #3218
396 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
397 [D8] Autosave content #3426
398 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
399 [UX] Terminology for configuring a block seems odd #1016
400 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810

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