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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
801 [UX] Views save/cancel buttons are at the top right #3054
802 View configuration UI: Add indicator denoting rewritten fields #5287
803 [DX] Backward compatibility in theme_item_list() #6398
804 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
805 [UX] Allow limiting allowed text formats per field instance (per content type). #2615
806 Log warnings when projects are encountered without a 'type' #4866
807 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861
808 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
809 [UX] Add a filter weight reset option so we can Show 'enabled' text filters above 'disabled' ones #4408
810 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
811 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
812 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
813 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
814 [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
815 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
816 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
817 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
818 Enhance Available Updates Report to show date of release and date of latest commit #6207
819 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
820 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
821 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
822 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
823 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
824 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
825 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
826 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
827 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
828 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
829 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
830 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
831 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
832 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
833 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
834 Add a comma-separated/list field formatter for multi-value fields. #316
835 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
836 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
837 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
838 Add global site logo token #5871
839 [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
840 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
841 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
842 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
843 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
844 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
845 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
846 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
847 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
848 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
849 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
850 [DX][D9] Introduce a new `hook_requirements_alter()` hook, to allow altering entries defined in `hook_requirements()` implementations #6241
851 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
852 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
853 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
854 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
855 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
856 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
857 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
858 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
859 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438
860 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
861 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
862 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
863 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
864 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
865 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
866 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
867 Use config for color module palettes #2554
868 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
869 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
870 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
871 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
872 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
873 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
874 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
875 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
876 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
877 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
878 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
879 [WP] Media Library #3203
880 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
881 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
882 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
883 Filter module: Add a data-path-id for internal links to make it easier to track and update internal paths #5004
884 Status page: Show information about supported image types by GD #5760
885 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
886 [UX] Admin bar: Move "Add new X" to the bottom of each fly-out menu #4586
887 [DX] Support #attributes in theme_help() and theme_more_help_link() #6007
888 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
889 [D8] Introduce a new example.settings.local.php file #4173
890 [UX] Offer option to replace the help text with a help icon that toggles its visibility (on by default on mobile). #1414
891 [UX] Block config: Prevent the user from accidentally creating conditions that never/always display a block. #1021
892 [D8] Autosave content #3426
893 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
894 As view fields, titles for Pageless nodes show links even for those without access. #5214
895 Add a check for missing modules or dependencies #5625
896 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
897 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
898 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
899 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
900 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898

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