Help prioritize core features! Votes cast here will help core developers understand what features the community would find most valuable. 

  • You must be logged in to vote.
  • Please vote for no more than 10 new features.
  • You can change your vote as often as you like.
  • A list of your current votes can be found on your user profile page.

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 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
902 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
903 [D8][UX] Add hidden and read-only field widgets (for the node edit form). #2101
904 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
905 Allow the values of list field types to be pulled from a view. #1677
906 Dashboard Module: Show link to manage existing nodes of specific content type #3944
907 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
908 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
909 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
910 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
911 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
912 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
913 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
914 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
915 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
916 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
917 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
918 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
919 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
920 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914
921 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
922 [META][UX][DX] Overhaul User module permissions and the respective admin UI #3815
923 Allow obsolete config strings to be culled from localization table #3452
924 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
925 [D8] Autosave content #3426
926 Implement createAccess for File entities #5479
927 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
928 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
929 [UX] Automatically clear caches after manual upgrades #5101
930 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
931 More useful tags for views #6268
932 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
933 [UX] Add the ckeditor spell-check plugin #2071
934 Allow altering image style urls #5745
935 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
936 [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
937 Rename default Contact form category #4703
938 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
939 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
940 [UX] Provide users with a visual way to understand and build content types (a.k.a.: Dream Fields in core) #5292
941 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
942 Better Book navigation links #4879
943 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
944 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
945 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
946 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
947 [UX] Add a site-wide "E-mail address(es) to notify" setting #2365
948 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
949 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
950 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
951 Add options to Block Name in Views #1880
952 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
953 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
954 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
955 Provide way for `entity_access()` to check for operations view, update and delete if no entity is provided #5474
956 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
957 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
958 [WP] Allow (optionally?) a limited set of HTML markup in node titles. #5081
959 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
960 Allow opening block configuration forms on their own page (not in a modal) #1659
961 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
962 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
963 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
964 Allow comments to be attached to any entity type #2048
965 [DX] Introduce a server-side conditional system (to possibly replace `#states`) #5750
966 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
967 Add 'Field HTML Trim' to core #6001
968 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
969 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
970 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
971 [A11Y] Change color of the Views hidden fields for the Seven theme #5261
972 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
973 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
974 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
975 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
976 Idea: Provide code names for major Backdrop releases #1458
977 Expose breakpoints as a visibility option for blocks and layouts. #2347
978 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
979 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
980 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
981 Layouts: Allow tokens to be used in custom page titles. #1860
982 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
983 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics