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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
401 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
402 Improve the styling of color input elements in the admin theme #4155
403 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
404 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
405 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
406 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
407 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
408 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
409 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
410 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
411 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
412 Reuse test prefixes instead of rebuilding them for each test #4353
413 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
414 Allow default/required settings on multilingual ("Language") fields #4322
415 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
416 [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
417 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
418 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
419 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
420 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
421 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
422 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
423 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
424 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
425 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
426 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
427 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
428 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
429 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
430 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
431 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
432 [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
433 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
434 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
435 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
436 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
437 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
438 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
439 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
440 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
441 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
442 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
443 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
444 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
445 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
446 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
447 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
448 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
449 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
450 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
451 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
452 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
453 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
454 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
455 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
456 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
457 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
458 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
459 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
460 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
461 [DX] Allow combining the types of placeholders for the t() function, and introduce a new one for text that should be wrapped in code/pre tag HTML tags #6190
462 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
463 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
464 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
465 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
466 [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
467 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
468 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
469 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
470 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
471 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
472 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
473 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
474 Content creation page cleanup #202
475 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
476 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
477 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
478 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
479 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
480 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
481 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
482 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
483 [D10] Invoke hook after a site install is complete #5876
484 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
485 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
486 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
487 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
488 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
489 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
490 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
491 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
492 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
493 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
494 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
495 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
496 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
497 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
498 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
499 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
500 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976

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