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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 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
402 [UX] Add visibility conditions for menu location #3867
403 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
404 [UX] Use "Configure" icons instead of the full word #3539
405 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
406 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
407 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
408 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
409 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
410 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
411 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
412 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
413 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
414 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
415 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
416 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
417 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
418 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
419 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
420 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
421 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
422 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
423 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
424 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
425 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
426 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
427 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
428 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
429 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
430 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
431 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
432 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
433 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
434 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
435 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
436 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
437 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
438 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
439 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
440 Double click prevention #6393
441 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
442 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
443 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
444 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
445 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
446 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
447 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
448 [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
449 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
450 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
451 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
452 uuid and entity import / export #890
453 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
454 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
455 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
456 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
457 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
458 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
459 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
460 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
461 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
462 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
463 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
464 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
465 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
466 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
467 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
468 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
469 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
470 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
471 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
472 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
473 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
474 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
475 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
476 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
477 [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
478 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
479 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
480 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
481 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
482 [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
483 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
484 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
485 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
486 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
487 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
488 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
489 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
490 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
491 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
492 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
493 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
494 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
495 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
496 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
497 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
498 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
499 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
500 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452

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