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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 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
602 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
603 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
604 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
605 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
606 Consider converting the watchdog list to a view. #1302
607 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
608 uuid and entity import / export #890
609 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
610 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
611 [DX] Revert field storage back to Drupal 6 style normalized tables #56
612 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
613 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
614 [D10][PS] CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements #5718
615 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
616 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
617 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
618 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964
619 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
620 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
621 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
622 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
623 [UX] Refine permissions for Field UI #1079
624 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
625 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
626 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
627 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
628 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
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 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
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 Allow themes to have `config` folders #6122
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] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
638 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
639 [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
640 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
641 Add entity_save and entity_delete in core. #862
642 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
643 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
644 [D8] Include Tour module in core #89
645 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
646 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
647 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
648 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
649 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
650 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
651 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
652 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
653 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
654 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
655 Put Backdrop JS Object at the bottom of the HTML Document #1051
656 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
657 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
658 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
659 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
660 [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
661 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
662 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
663 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
664 [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
665 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
666 Consider adding print styles in core report pages, or providing a way to export them as JSON #6136
667 [UX][A11y][D10] CKEditor toolbar configuration: allow adding/(re)moving buttons via keyboard #6159
668 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
669 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
670 Check if paths already exist when views or layouts are being installed. #1257
671 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
672 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
673 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
674 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
675 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
676 Allow altering image style urls #5745
677 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
678 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
679 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
680 [UX] Contact module: Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the admin UI - allow customizing the label of the field in the public-facing form #5992
681 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
682 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
683 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
684 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
685 [UX] Field UI - clean up the field type selection #1041
686 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
687 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
688 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
689 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
690 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
691 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
692 Use config for color module palettes #2554
693 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
694 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
695 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
696 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
697 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
698 Varnish Cache Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6164
699 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
700 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938

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