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 [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
202 When using a term reference field only show the term options that are in the current language #4774
203 Add filtering to the List Views page like the filtering that existed in D7 #5896
204 [DX] Add contrib and custom directories to the docroot/modules directory. #1996
205 List of Modules should show required contrib modules #6173
206 [UX] Detect whether mod_rewrite is enabled (in Apache installs) and throw a warning in the clean URLs page. #1573
207 [DX] Change modals so special server whitelist is not required #3938
208 [UX] Display a Welcome page after upgrading Backdrop to the latest version #1225
209 Provide additional permissions for the maintenance mode #3625
210 [UX] Explore the idea of converting the "Save"/"Cancel" text to links in the messages of "dirty" forms. #789
211 [WP] Media Library #3203
212 Telemetry: Collect the Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI) #5449
213 [Meta] Available updates report not as complete as Drupal 7 report #6252
214 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
215 Administration Bar module should not use popup #6270
216 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
217 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
218 [PS] Add `webp` to default extensions on new image fields (if supported) #4998
219 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
220 Add permission "Clear log messages" #2242
221 [UX] Image Library view: Dynamic number of items per page #4560
222 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
223 [UX] Project Installer: Make the sorting options responsive. #1779
224 Mobile first approach theme #4131
225 [DX] Views query should not output { and } around database table names. #1389
226 [UX] Introduce a `confirm_dialog()` function #3771
227 [UX] Allow bulk-adding/editing vocabulary terms and menu items. #1006
228 Consider using Turbolinks (or similar) as a poor-man's BigPipe #3416
229 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
230 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
231 Telemetry: Collect actual OS, not only type #5199
232 Allow site administrators to selectively disable entity caching #5632
233 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
234 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
235 [DX] Form API: provide form element(s) for CSS classes and IDs #5898
236 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
237 Allow 'Main Page Content' block to use a specific display mode #4341
238 Add a "Site Category" field to site info #1543
239 Allow install profiles to define dependencies other than modules #3926
240 Allow install profiles to define explicit/hard dependencies #3597
241 [UX] Hide/Show row weights should not be done globally without warning #750
242 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
243 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
244 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
245 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
246 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
247 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
248 Create "Current Node" block #5774
249 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
250 [UX] Change layout 'Visibility conditions' links to a drop button #4529
251 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
252 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
253 [DX] Save Dev time, make a console notice for Backdrop.behaviours #4116
254 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization Views in core #1375
255 [D9 feature parity] Killer feature: Fieldable Fields in core #3766
256 [UX] Admin bar search: Make certain search results distinct by prefixing their immediate parent item. #1002
257 [UX] Add a "Used in" column that shows layout(s)/region(s) where each menu is placed. #3407
258 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
259 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
260 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
261 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
262 Add state_override function to core #4725
263 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
264 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
265 [D8] Form API: Introduce proper #types for 'option' and 'optgroup', and make #options consistent. #4312
266 [A11Y] Append the current tab in the breadcrumb (even if as an invisible element). #1535
267 [D9] Add a sub theme starter kit to Basis #3914
268 [UX] Rename "Configuration" to "Settings" #1161
269 Add a Pre-upgrade analysis/report to prevent people from forgetting something #3577
270 [UX] Allow bulk deleting menu links. #732
271 [UX] Open the field widget link in a modal #691
272 Bulk operation for scheduling publishing of multiple pieces of content. #3115
273 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
274 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
275 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
276 [UX] Admin bar: Consider replacing the home button with a "Back to site" button. #2709
277 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
278 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
279 Allow text formats to be cloned. #4501
280 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
281 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
282 [DX] Provide a version of check_plain() that does not escape (for RSS feeds) #4112
283 [UX] Link to the Layouts admin page from the Custom blocks admin page. #1360
284 [UX] limit field tokens on node type page to fields on that type #3752
285 [UX] [WYSIWYG] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview for the editor. #985
286 CKEditor: consider the new Autocomplete plugin (introduced in 4.10) for addition to core. #3357
287 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
288 [UX] timezone drop-down should group timezones by continent #2928
289 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
290 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
291 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
292 Translation of taxonomy terms #4720
293 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
294 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
295 Add permission for users to be able to administer their own contact form #4292
296 [UX] Set date formats by country #1521
297 [DX] Add config->getData() to match config->setData() #3902
298 [DX] Add a Production/Development Toggle to core. #1144
299 [DX][UX] Keyboard shortcut for admin menu search #3564
300 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics