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
201 Prepend the content type name in the "Permissions" vtab permission names when creating a content type. #1539
202 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
203 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
204 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
205 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
206 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
207 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
208 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
209 Automatically create a node/% layout when one is created for node/NID #5539
210 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
211 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
212 [A11Y][D9] Provide a "Visually hidden" option for the display of field labels #5766
213 [DX] Simplify getting and setting of values without using the 'und' data structure in entities #2240
214 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
215 [D8] Date fields: Support both future/past dates at the same time with the "time ago" formatter #6021
216 [UX] Project Browser: Improve the project details modal. #1778
217 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
218 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
219 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
220 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
221 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
222 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
223 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
224 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
225 Add a new core theme #5175
226 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
227 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
228 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
229 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
230 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
231 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
232 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
233 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
234 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
235 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
236 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
237 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
238 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
239 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
240 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
241 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
242 Apply image style to default picture #4976
243 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
244 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
245 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
246 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
247 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
248 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
249 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
250 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
251 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
252 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
253 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
254 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
255 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
256 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
257 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
258 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
259 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
260 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
261 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
262 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
263 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
264 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
265 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
266 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
267 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
268 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
269 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
270 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
271 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
272 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
273 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
274 Create a printable Status Report #5821
275 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
276 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
277 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
278 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
279 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
280 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
281 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
282 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
283 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
284 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
285 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
286 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
287 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
288 Rename default Contact form category #4703
289 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
290 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
291 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
292 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
293 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
294 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
295 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
296 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
297 Add status report message informing about CKEditor 5 upgrade #6346
298 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
299 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
300 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics