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
1 Field group functionality in core #647 17
2 [META] Automatic Updates #2018 17
3 [UX] VBO: Select all items on all pages #3798 15
4 [UX] Move title display settings to Manage Display form #1950 14
5 [UX] Support "multiple" HTML5 attribute on File elements #440 14
6 Add option to globally disable comments on a content type. #3016 13
7 [D11][UX] Add an easy-to-use 'Remove' button on multi-value fields #314 12
8 Add a site architecture report #4691 7
9 [PS][D8] Advanced Drupal Caching (a.k.a. cache tags and cache max-age) #4127 7
10 [UX] Convert search to a view. #1338 6
11 [UX] Make form submit buttons "sticky". #566 6
12 [UX] Make layouts aware of path aliases #3749 6
13 [D8][UX] Save Draft (module) in core #3157 6
14 [Meta] [UX] Better permissions UI #463 5
15 [UX] Allow multiple values, or OR'd conditions for layouts and blocks. #2958 5
16 [UX] Add "Update available" indicator to the modules list. #502 5
17 [D8][WP] Move to trash instead of deleting. #2498 4
18 Create View All Content of this type permission #5634 4
19 VBO: Allow bulk operations for updating entity values (including taxonomy terms) #4401 4
20 [UX] Improve current Language System #887 3
21 Promote "recommended" feature-complete themes #4445 3
22 [UX] Allow people to overwrite existing files #854 3
23 [SR] Include Honeypot module in Backdrop by default for public forms. #1169 3
24 Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows #4052 3
25 Port the UI functionality from Entity API #1650 2
26 [UX] Better UX for Views UI #1314 2
27 Allow deleting uninstalled/unused modules/themes/layouts from the filesystem via the admin UI #3939 2
28 Date: Option to change the default end date to the chosen start date #2752 2
29 [UX] CKEditor: Consider adding the Auto Grow and Fixed plugins in core #3354 2
30 Expose Fields to Visibility Conditions #4728 2
31 Required revision messages #4302 2
32 [UX] Add a button for clearing css/js cache and theme registry to the appearence page #4289 2
33 [UX] Be consistent about appending the parent page to the breadcrumb (or not). #1509 2
34 [UX] Implement N-Gram/Porter-Stemmer/Fuzzy/Partial-Word search in core. #1320 2
35 [META] File management (media browser, fields on files etc) #1448 2
36 Export a flexible layout template to a template file #5045 2
37 [D8][WP][UX] Better/advanced Workflow States #4355 2
38 [UX] Make only one theme "active" at a time #131 2
39 [WP] Data import and export #487 2
40 [UX] Check for missing modules during core update #2853 2
41 Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop #3763 2
42 [UX] Add Filter Permissions module to core #5796 2
43 [WP] Provide a UI for editing images (rotate, flip, crop, etc) #4489 2
44 Entity bundles should declare both a singular and a plural form of their label #1145 2
45 [UX] Add a JS toggle on the modules page for core / contrib / all #498 1
46 Add Anchor Button to CKEditor #4914 1
47 [D8][UX] Move 'Add new/existing field' functionality to a new page via an action link #4898 1
48 Allow adding (font-)icons to menu items #3819 1
49 Add option for field blocks and display mode - author & date fields #3929 1
50 [UX] distinguish single url and dynamic url layout groups on layout list #4841 1
51 Split 'Administer site configuration' into more specific permissions #3761 1
52 [UX] Smarter field label displays #3140 1
53 [D8] Add administration specific language preference #282 1
54 [SR][D9] Add a setting to enable "security by obscurity" on login/password reset forms #4696 1
55 Add ability to add HTML element wrapper to fields #5699 1
56 [UX] move contents of "Manage file display" page #4031 1
57 I don't want default content #5587 1
58 Ship core with a layout that uses taxonomy/term/% as context #3648 1
59 Make some block settings global #3805 1
60 [DX] Allow messages to be alterable #1062 1
61 Allow multiple default values on multi value fields #3352 1
62 [UX] Blocks: Add a "Taxonomy term: Depth" Visibility condition #2955 1
63 [UX] Add a help text indicator & tooltip for placing next to things that may be confusing #3707 1
64 [D8] Add support for opt-in CORS #3350 1
65 Add a "Maximize" button to modals and dialogs #4448 1
66 [META] Improve core search. #1332 1
67 [UX] Change the username field on registration to "Display name" #2489 1
68 [A11Y][UX] [DX] Replace the more/less toggle links with "details" HTML elements #5090 1
69 [UX] Move the Title field label setting to the "Manage fields" form #1441 1
70 Pre-compress Files With Brotli And Fallback To Gzip #4743 1
71 UX - Ability to tag and filter images in image library #5680 1
72 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
73 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
74 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
75 [DX] Add user_role_has_permission function #6186
76 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
77 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
78 Provide the option for not displaying URL settings #3664
79 [UX] Breadcrumb should include Primary/Secondary tabs #2260
80 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
81 Redirect UI: Separate internal paths/aliases vs external URLs. #1803
82 [META] Improve the project screenshots functionality in the project browser #3061
83 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
84 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
85 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
86 "Create new revision by default" doesn't enable revisions #6103
87 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
88 Garbage collection deletes files if they are inserted where filter can't find them. #3826
89 [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
90 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
91 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
92 [UX] Edit view from Layout blocks page #3501
93 Define aims and outstanding technical tasks for distro support and Features-style config packages in core #99
94 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
95 [Multisite] Provide option for installing global or site-specific projects via the UI #3274
96 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
97 Give details about why a permission 'has security implications' #5536
98 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
99 Ensure Backdrop deletes all files it puts into /tmp #3253
100 [UX][DX][A11Y] Start using inputmode for fields and form elements as appropriate #5964

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics