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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 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
402 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
403 Allow deleting modules/themes/layouts via the "Uninstall" function of Project Installer. #2648
404 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
405 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
406 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
407 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
408 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
409 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
410 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
411 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
412 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
413 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
414 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
415 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
416 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
417 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
418 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63
419 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
420 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
421 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
422 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
423 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
424 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
425 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
426 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
427 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
428 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
429 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
430 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
431 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
432 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
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 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
436 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
437 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
438 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
439 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
440 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
441 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
442 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
443 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
444 [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
445 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
446 Config override in settings.php file doesn't work for permissions #6193
447 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
448 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
449 uuid and entity import / export #890
450 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
451 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
452 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
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 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
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 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
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 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
464 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
465 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
466 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
467 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
468 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
469 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
470 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
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 database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
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 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
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 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
480 [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
481 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
482 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
483 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
484 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
485 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
486 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
487 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
488 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
489 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
490 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
491 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
492 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
493 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
494 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
495 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
496 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
497 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
498 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
499 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
500 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221

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