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 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
202 [UX] Add a default Taxonomy (tag/category) layout #1164
203 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
204 [UX] Make field settings visually clearer, no indication that you’re a layer deeper. #744
205 [WP] Add the ability to schedule config changes #3185
206 [UX] Allow reordering of layouts from main Layouts page #5411
207 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
208 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
209 [SEO][META] Provide some basic SEO meta tags OOTB #4995
210 [DX] Make File::access consistent with other entity classes. #5480
211 [DX] Simplify getting and setting of values without using the 'und' data structure in entities #2240
212 [UX] Add a token-browser-like PHP date format helper dialog #4556
213 [D10] Layouts/blocks: Add visibility condition for 200/403/404 response codes #6016
214 [UX] Project Browser: Improve the project details modal. #1778
215 CSS Architecture with SASS, SMACSS, and BEM #4129
216 [D8] Port and merge Local Image Input Filter in core #1384
217 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for enabling/uninstalling modules to a modal. #3770
218 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
219 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
220 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
221 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
222 Add a new core theme #5175
223 Don't show the node_load_multiple() $conditions parameter as deprecated #5644
224 [UX] Consider replacing the block title type drop-down with an always required (and unique) block title field. #2483
225 Consolidate maintenance-related settings either in $state or $config #4723
226 [DX] Add normalized project data into the database. #5905
227 [UX] Layouts: Use icons within drop buttons on small/mobile screens #1974
228 Allow separate edit and display titles for field #4310
229 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
230 Allow a layout to be selected on additional paths. #1528
231 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
232 Ability to specify absolute or relative links only in Link fields #1158
233 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
234 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
235 [D8] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports #3136
236 [PS] Optimize menu_navigation_links_rebuild() #5389
237 Support SVG in Image Library #5541
238 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
239 Apply image style to default picture #4976
240 Create "Current Node" block #5774
241 [UX] Swap tab order of "Export" and "Import" config pages #2185
242 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
243 [D10] Date fields: Allow the "time ago" formatter to show as a fully cacheable time difference with JS #6022
244 [UX] Better image style previews. #1772
245 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
246 [D8] Port and merge Internationalization in core (feature parity with D8). #1374
247 [DX] Remove unused item attributes (per delta) on fields #1352
248 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
249 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
250 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
251 [D8] Add new formatter - "URL to Image" to image field in Views #2921
252 [UX] Flexible templates UI: Allow "visual" region width changing, using left/right drag handles, and width indicators #5167
253 Make the value of e-mail field visiable on user profile's View page #5663
254 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
255 [DX] Form API: Be able to tell system_settings_form() to ignore some form elements, without having to use a custom submit handler #4713
256 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
257 Views: Add <audio> and <video> to the available options in the "Customize field HTML" for file fields. #1966
258 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
259 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
260 [UX] Add a `kitchen sink` of options to the Filtered text format #1520
261 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
262 [UX] Allow image styles to be ordered/sorted. #1141
263 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
264 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
265 Allow admins to unblock someone easily without having to go into the database #3111
266 Is the Admin Menu z-index value high enough? #5372
267 [UX] Views: Offer an option for the pager to start counting from 1 instead of 0 #5566
268 [UX]/[DX] Add a fancy "copy to clipboard" button for views templates #2677
269 Make "Compose tips" (long version of tips) for text formats discoverable from "Formatting options" fieldset #4953
270 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
271 Add support for CKEditor 5 (CKEditor 4 becomes EoL in 2023) #4122
272 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
273 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
274 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
275 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
276 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
277 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
278 Content creation page cleanup #202
279 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
280 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
281 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
282 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
283 Rename default Contact form category #4703
284 Seventy two theme #5928
285 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
286 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
287 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
288 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
289 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
290 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
291 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
292 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
293 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
294 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
295 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
296 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
297 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
298 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
299 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
300 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics