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
101 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
102 Create redirects for bulk alias delete #1993
103 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
104 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
105 [UX] Remove the textarea_with_summary field type #490
106 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
107 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
108 [UX] On the Add view page, expand block, and collapse page display #2978
109 [UX] combine different kinds of views link fields #3457
110 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
111 Provide a views filter handler for project properties #5904
112 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
113 [UX] Decide when to add 'block' to the end of block admin titles, and do so consistently. #2255
114 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
115 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
116 Add an option (checkbox) in the layout settings for "Page title type" that enables/disables appending the " | [site-name]" part to the page <title>. #1790
117 Cannot create menu items linking to existing files #3945
118 Custom Block contextual link #4390
119 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
120 Replace taxonomy_index with taxonomy_entity_index #103
121 [UX] Admin Bar: Make "Development" a top-level menu item #3652
122 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
123 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
124 [UX] Add HTML5 Date Widget Support to Views Exposed Form #5768
125 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
126 [UX] Search settings: Convert the "Search items" section to a table. #3385
127 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
128 Docblock in page.tpl.php lists incorrect 'available' variables. #1981
129 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
130 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
131 [UX] Turn the installer into a 1-minute installer #467
132 Contact module roadmap: 80% usecase of Webforms in core #3808
133 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
134 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
135 [DX] backdrop_process_states: Introduce a new `primary`/`secondary` set of states for submit buttons #3441
136 Add 'Save user(s)' action #5656
137 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
138 Path filter/tips is not very useful and unlikely to be found #5912
139 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
140 [DX] Simplify getting and setting of values without using the 'und' data structure in entities #2240
141 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
142 Views advanced settings: Only one page region, but still a drop-down. #852
143 [UX] Project Browser: Improve the project details modal. #1778
144 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
145 [UX] Layout deletion confirmation form: add more explanation and options #5511
146 [D8] theme_table() should take an optional footer variable and produce tfoot #3627
147 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
148 Create a mechanism for dynamically determining output of file entities #2721
149 Add link to installer on module list for missing modules #5792
150 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
151 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
152 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
153 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
154 [SEO][WP] Text formats: Introduce new filter to enable native browser-level loading=lazy attribute for images added to text areas. #4587
155 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
156 [UX] Provide a menu-centric workflow for creating the website structure (à la content_menu) #434
157 [UX] add a hook_requirements check for disabled modules, not uninstalled #3778
158 [UX] Idea: replace the various options for registering/canceling user accounts with a set of permissions #6163
159 [UX] Add path settings to file pages #4176
160 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
161 [D8][UX] Add a toggle in the admin bar for showing/hiding contextual links on mobile #3417
162 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
163 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
164 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
165 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
166 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
167 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
168 Allow non-administrative users the ability to publish/unpublish/schedule content #815
169 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
170 Easier/better way to revert Views' settings #4368
171 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
172 [UX] Allow site admins to specify which menu is to be used in the admin bar. #5519
173 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
174 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
175 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
176 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
177 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
178 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
179 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
180 [PS] Use signatures instead of the form cache #1470
181 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
182 [META][UX] Better "Recent content" block #4576
183 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
184 Make pager more efficient by not generating (and running) a countQuery #404
185 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
186 Add content type name as a part of a new field name suggestion #6172
187 Showcase core features during install #4138
188 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
189 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
190 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
191 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
192 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
193 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
194 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
195 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of menu links to a modal. #770
196 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
197 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
198 Upgrade UI module (similar to Migrate UI in D8) to help with moving from D7 #4345
199 [UX] Mobile project browser: make it easier to get to the queue #3098
200 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics