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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 Replace user-picture.tpl.php with a theme function #555
402 [UX] Add a 'visible' property to display modes #3082
403 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
404 Editor image dialog: option to sync the width and height of the image and also option to override the sync #6385
405 CKEditor: Add filter to allow empty HTML tags #3269
406 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
407 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
408 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
409 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
410 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
411 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
412 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
413 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
414 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
415 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
416 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
417 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
418 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
419 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
420 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
421 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
422 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
423 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
424 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
425 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
426 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
427 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
428 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
429 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
430 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
431 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
432 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
433 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
434 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
435 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
436 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
437 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
438 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
439 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
440 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
441 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
442 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
443 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
444 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
445 [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
446 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
447 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
448 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
449 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
450 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
451 [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
452 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
453 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
454 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
455 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
456 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
457 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
458 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
459 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
460 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
461 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
462 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
463 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
464 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
465 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
466 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
467 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
468 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
469 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
470 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
471 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
472 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
473 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
474 [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
475 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
476 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
477 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
478 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
479 [UX] Add the "Comment fields" and "Comment display" links to the operations dropbutton in the content type admin page and also the respective admin menu items. #1262
480 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
481 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
482 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
483 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
484 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
485 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
486 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
487 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
488 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
489 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
490 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
491 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
492 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
493 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
494 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
495 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
496 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
497 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
498 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
499 Use config for color module palettes #2554
500 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807

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