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 Allow default/required settings on multilingual ("Language") fields #4322
902 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
903 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
904 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
905 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
906 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
907 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
908 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
909 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
910 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
911 Apply image style to default picture #4976
912 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
913 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
914 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
915 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
916 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
917 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
918 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
919 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
920 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
921 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
922 Add a new core theme #5175
923 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
924 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
925 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
926 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
927 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
928 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
929 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
930 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
931 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
932 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
933 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
934 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
935 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
936 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
937 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
938 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
939 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
940 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
941 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
942 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
943 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
944 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
945 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
946 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
947 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
948 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
949 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
950 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
951 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
952 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
953 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
954 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
955 More useful tags for views #6268
956 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
957 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
958 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
959 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
960 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
961 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
962 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
963 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
964 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
965 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
966 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
967 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
968 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
969 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
970 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
971 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
972 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
973 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
974 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
975 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
976 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
977 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
978 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
979 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
980 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
981 Rename default Contact form category #4703
982 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
983 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics