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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
601 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
602 [DX] Form API: Do not require #default_value for checkboxes to be provided as an array #5836
603 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
604 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
605 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
606 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
607 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
608 Add an upgrade path for CKEditor module #3684
609 [UX] disable "upload" button on file widget until file has been selected #908
610 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
611 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
612 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
613 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
614 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
615 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
616 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
617 [DX] Add Flush all caches > Views to admin bar #5737
618 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
619 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
620 Suggestion: Post-upgrade Summary After Drupal 7 Migration #5606
621 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
622 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
623 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
624 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
625 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
626 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
627 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
628 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
629 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
630 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
631 Provide a "System metrics" entry in the status page, to show disk space, RAM usage, and database size #5858
632 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
633 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
634 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
635 [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
636 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
637 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
638 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
639 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
640 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
641 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
642 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
643 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
644 Trim textfields? #6386
645 [DX] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of config entries #5741
646 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
647 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
648 [A11Y] tablist needs tab roles for children elements #5982
649 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
650 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
651 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
652 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
653 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
654 [UX][D8] Merge the "List links" and "Edit menu" operations into a single administration page. #475
655 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
656 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
657 Create option for a cropped image style to provide consistent image size for Cards view #5593
658 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
659 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
660 [UX] Consolidate PHP-related information in the status report page, and add some basic PHP memory usage metrics #5863
661 [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
662 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
663 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
664 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
665 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
666 [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
667 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
668 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
669 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
670 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
671 [SR][UX] Flood control: Better workflow and allow users to self-serve #5522
672 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
673 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
674 [D9] Allow adding descriptions to user roles (and show them in the roles listing page) #5748
675 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
676 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
677 Add context handling to Views blocks #5995
678 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
679 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
680 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
681 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
682 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
683 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
684 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
685 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
686 Create a new cropped image style specifically for cards #5607
687 Use config for color module palettes #2554
688 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
689 [D10] Invoke hook after a site install is complete #5876
690 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
691 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
692 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
693 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
694 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
695 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
696 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
697 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
698 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
699 [WP] Media Library #3203
700 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449

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