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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 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
402 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
403 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
404 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
405 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
406 [UX] Make it easier to create layouts for paths that are already assigned to be aliases for existing content. #3703
407 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
408 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
409 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
410 [DX] [BC] Deprecate, reduce use of, or remove DBTNG #61
411 Provide smarter default query string key names for views exposed filters #2893
412 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
413 Support the call of Ukraininan government and change “Russia” to “Russia is a terrorist state” #5712
414 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
415 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
416 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
417 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
418 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
419 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
420 Dashboard block: Translations #3852
421 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
422 [UX] Add charts to the dashboard #3529
423 [UX] admin bar search results should not be allowed to span further than the page height. #520
424 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
425 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
426 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
427 Get Designer Input on BackdropCMS 'Out of the Box' appearance #5581
428 [UX] Views/Field formatter: Count #2634
429 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
430 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
431 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
432 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
433 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
434 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
435 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
436 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
437 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
438 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
439 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
440 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
441 [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
442 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
443 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
444 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
445 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
446 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
447 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
448 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
449 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
450 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
451 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
452 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
453 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
454 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
455 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
456 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
457 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
458 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
459 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
460 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
461 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
462 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
463 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
464 [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
465 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
466 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
467 [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
468 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
469 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
470 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
471 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
472 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
473 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
474 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
475 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
476 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
477 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
478 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
479 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
480 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
481 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
482 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
483 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
484 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
485 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
486 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
487 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
488 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
489 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
490 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
491 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
492 [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
493 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
494 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
495 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
496 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
497 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
498 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
499 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
500 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229

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