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 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
902 [UX] Convert the "Install from a URL" text field to a text area to allow installing multiple projects in one go. #1561
903 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
904 Consolidate messages about modules merged into core if more than one module detected. #1163
905 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
906 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
907 [DX] Introduce a new `#` placeholder for `format_string()`, that formats user-facing text as code #6191
908 [DX] Add settings/page for contextual links settings #5404
909 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
910 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
911 [DX] Support a way to declare conflicts in .info files #4993
912 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
913 [DX] Switch to a simplified array syntax for database connection information in settings.php #2231
914 [DX] Support some basic markdown-flavoured formatting in t() #4535
915 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
916 [A11Y] Convert core to use EM's for all @media and font-sizes #1775
917 [D8] Port and merge Localization Update in core #1377
918 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
919 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
920 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
921 Double click prevention #6393
922 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
923 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
924 [UX] Add bulk operations (update/delete) in the URL path aliases list. #1979
925 [UX] Allow a field HTML ID to be set as target in theme_token_tree_link() #4316
926 [UX] Add # anchors to vtabs. #1537
927 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
928 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
929 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
930 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
931 Make l() to call theme('link') when possible #6194
932 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
933 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
934 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
935 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
936 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
937 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
938 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
939 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
940 Incorporate Layouts UI to "manage displays" for entities #6039
941 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
942 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
943 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
944 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
945 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
946 Add ability to configure inline image upload path with global/ site tokens #6401
947 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
948 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
949 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
950 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
951 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
952 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
953 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
954 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
955 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
956 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
957 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
958 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
959 Add hook_field_schema_alter() #6208
960 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
961 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
962 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
963 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
964 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
965 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
966 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
967 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
968 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
969 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
970 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
971 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
972 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
973 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
974 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
975 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
976 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
977 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
978 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
979 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
980 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
981 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics