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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
901 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
902 [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
903 [WP][UX] Dashboard: Dismissible blocks #3996
904 [UX] Improve editing data and time format patterns #1284
905 Add an upgrade path from menu_block to core menu blocks. #3681
906 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
907 Allow attributes to be passed to backdrop_add_css() and backdrop_add_js() (SRI) #5478
908 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
909 [UX] Modules Manual installation box needs to take modules names in any case #2885
910 Allow to trigger the site status alert (red button) remotely #5097
911 Allow Access to Image Library for Core Hero Block #5739
912 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
913 Use the default date entry format for the default date display format #4646
914 Include Link Sanitize tests from D7 contrib module #5613
915 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
916 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
917 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211
918 [UX] File Field UI redesign. #1445
919 Allow specifying optional tags for blocks #3837
920 Create the settings.php file if missing. #1075
921 [UX] [multilingual] Translated blocks are too hard to use #3514
922 Layout: path condition with a subdomain #1049
923 Front page to be configurable by language #3500
924 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
925 [D9][UX] Add a user-friendly parent menu browser in the content add/edit form. #3029
926 [DX][D9] Add helper functions to inject/move items into a particular position in associative arrays #5247
927 The farbtastic color picker is unmaintained since 2017 - replace with a modern/maintained alternative #5598
928 [UX] Menu paths: replace the silly <front> placeholder with a dropdown and rename it to "home page" #2588
929 Allow themes to be installed, uninstalled, and updated (treat them like modules) #4829
930 Add global site logo token #5871
931 [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
932 [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
933 [D8][DX] Add element #type table and merge tableselect/tabledrag into it #4388
934 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
935 [UX] Allow the user to change their mind about manually entering a machine name... #1608
936 [A11Y] Provide a dark (or high-contrast) version of Seven #3990
937 [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
938 [UX] Add youtube field, or video embed field to core. Integrate with media library. #3661
939 [DX] Add entity_get_bundles() as a convenient method for getting the label of a bundle. #3243
940 [D10] Add the static analyzer tool PHPStan to Backdrop core #5467
941 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
942 [DX] Add a legacy upgrade_mappings database table #2855
943 Add and Utilize Label and Description for the Admin Interface and Consolidate Help Text #5079
944 [DX][D9] Add the ability to deprecate the name (and value?) of entries in settings.php #5740
945 Views: improve the "last" link of pagers #2332
946 [UX] Dismissible status report messages. #4617
947 Add a language switcher to the admin bar when locale is enabled #5983
948 Introduce new "View own published content" #6397
949 [UX][WP][D8] Allow the admin bar to be docked in various sides of the screen #1842
950 Allow overriding Seven's header customisations #4205
951 Add a "Make Permanent" action for the manage files listing #3825
952 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
953 [D8][UX] Add inline form errors #1040
954 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
955 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
956 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
957 Add an "unsorted" indicator to table columns #5221
958 Better styling for UI links in book module #5609
959 Use config for color module palettes #2554
960 [UX] Display a warning message when editor changes from Full HTML to something else #4807
961 [D8][DX] Provide a generic 'entity_autocomplete' Form API element #5879
962 Display the field machine_name along with the label on the display mode #6200
963 Add layout name in class for custom layout. #2012
964 Add filtering to path_autocomplete #4381
965 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
966 Allow install profiles to be run after site creation #1591
967 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
968 [UX] Change user/login to /login and /user/logout to /logout #1248
969 Allow search result display to be controlled via view modes #829
970 Allow copying settings from other content types when adding an existing field #3229
971 Add fallback to HTTP for update manager #5455
972 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
973 menu_tree_check_access() adds 1141 database queries #2825
974 Allow user/module to disable theme_debug for particular templates or modules #5746
975 [DX] Allow nested form elements to be attached to radio and checkbox options. #2304
976 Add 'reverse' option to 'View result counter' #4590
977 [DX] Add `#indentation` property to FAPI elements. #5999
978 [A11Y] Make collapsible fieldset accessible #6408
979 [UX] Layout UI: Template radios: the way we indicate a "selected" template is too subtle (and same as the hover-over indication). #1824
980 Change the "Invalidate search index" process to a batched "Rebuild search index" #4182
981 [UX] Let site builders add a new image style whenever they're selecting a style to use #1438

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