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] Link fields: Automatically fill in the title of the content that is being linked #4479
202 [DX] Offer to backup and delete existing config to proceed with installation #6062
203 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
204 Flexible Layout Templates - Add hero ROW by default to new templates #4091
205 [DX] [CMI] Add a site-wide concept of storage state (like ctools) #1345
206 [WP] Support HTML formatted emails in core #3727
207 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the Configuration page (/admin/config). #978
208 [UX] Rename "taxonomy" to "Categorization" in the user interface #203
209 Comment administration improvements #2919
210 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
211 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
212 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
213 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
214 Menu router refactoring #2400
215 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
216 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
217 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
218 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
219 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
220 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
221 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
222 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
223 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
224 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
225 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
226 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
227 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
228 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
229 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
230 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
231 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
232 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
233 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
234 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
235 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
236 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
237 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
238 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
239 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
240 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
241 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
242 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
243 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
244 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
245 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
246 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
247 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
248 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
249 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
250 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
251 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
252 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
253 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
254 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
255 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
256 Allow regions titles #2647
257 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
258 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
259 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
260 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
261 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
262 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
263 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
264 [UX] Manage display: use the 'dirty' form flag when field settings are changed, in order to indicate that the form needs to be saved. #927
265 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
266 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
267 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
268 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
269 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
270 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
271 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
272 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
273 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
274 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
275 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
276 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
277 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
278 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
279 Search terms along with nodes #3850
280 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
281 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
282 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
283 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
284 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
285 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
286 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
287 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
288 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
289 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
290 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
291 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
292 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
293 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
294 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
295 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
296 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
297 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
298 Allow tokens to be used in the default value of fields. #885
299 Add function that returns default config #3251
300 Provide `original` vocabulary to presave and update vocabulary hooks #5475

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics