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
401 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
402 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
403 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
404 Allow a hook to alter the list of CSS files parsed by Color module #6240
405 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
406 Create a field_storage_exists() function #5180
407 [UX] Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden from users with the "Administer book outlines" permission #3638
408 Ability to include module configuration in config recipe even if config already exists #5173
409 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
410 [UX] Sort the image styles list in a meaningful way #2457
411 Add markup or message field to contact form #4721
412 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
413 Add semantic markup to layouts #1970
414 [UX] Use Javascript to complete block Admin label fields based on Display title #1523
415 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
416 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
417 [UX] Make block titles required and allow them to be hidden. #692
418 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
419 Enhanced Float-Value Display Options #5379
420 [SR] Security hardening: provide a mechanism to expire sessions #5545
421 [ META] Add new interface for user selection of managed files #2718
422 Link module: Provide an option to allow for a predefined list of static titles #4970
423 Provide a list of "Enabled Modules" somewhere to help with debugging #5791
424 Add a default 'posts' view to core #2152
425 [D9] Add menu link support into views #4505
426 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
427 Add new image style effect: mirror/flip vertically, horizontally and both. #1762
428 [UX] Add the ability to make any standard layout template a flexible one #4114
429 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
430 [UX] [Layouts UI] Consider adding a side-by-side live preview. #986
431 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
432 Make mobile menu toggle text configurable #6264
433 Creating multiple fields simultaneously while creating a content type #292
434 Provide chained term tokens for taxonomy_term_reference fields #2949
435 [DX][BC] Replace module_load_include() with new, more generic function #206
436 Add the ability to create a CSS class for image field in Views #2920
437 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
438 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
439 [UX] Layout UI: Individual tempstore for each block (instead of the global, per-from one we currently have). #2429
440 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
441 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
442 Run tests for releases after project published ZIP file #1964
443 [UX] Allow multiple screenshots for modules themes and layouts #1517
444 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
445 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
446 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
447 [UX] Config import should search recursively for config files to import #661
448 [UX] Fix pager styling on mobile #3099
449 Add more properties to project .info files... Initial Release date, Current Release Date, Categories, D7 base module or theme if any #5367
450 Missing a possibility to get a books mlid value for views #5565
451 Provide "Delimited" and "HTML list" display formatters for fields #2674
452 [D7] Tokens missing from Backdrop core. This issue was considered major in D7. #4952
453 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
454 [UX] When error messages are set to "None", show number of php critical errors in the admin bar badge. #2138
455 [UX] Flexible layout templates: Provide a selectable list of "presets" #4484
456 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
457 [UX] Add # anchors to blocks in the Layout UI. #1724
458 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
459 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
460 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
461 [UX] Add back the hide/show descriptions toggle in the Configuration page (/admin/config). #979
462 Ability to change themes based upon a layout #6296
463 [UX] Add help text on "uninstall modules" page /admin/modules/uninstall that modules need to be disabled first #6309
464 [D8] Convert "Recent content" block to a View #146
465 Views UI: Edit Basic Settings #2906
466 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
467 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
468 Basis: Add basic font-sizes to skin.css #2410
469 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
470 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
471 [UX] New interface for editing, previewing, and saving theme settings #1949
472 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
473 Transliteration: smarter "retroactive" transliteration of existing file names. #1506
474 Allow some markup in views descriptions. #3885
475 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
476 [DX][META] Introduce functions similar to views_get_views_as_options() for other things #3545
477 [UX] differing interface patterns for "add new" and "save order" in different places in core #573
478 [UX] Mobile project browser: make search result filters better for mobile #3096
479 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
480 Why do we need to write the entire config data within update hooks? #3347
481 Create New Field API for more efficient fields #2661
482 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
483 Create a printable Status Report #5821
484 [UX] Change tags field display to use 'tag blocks' when entering tags #2121
485 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
486 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
487 [UX] Project Browser: Merge the pages in the UI where one can **INSTALL** a module, theme or layout into a single primary tab, under a single top-level menu item. #1701
488 Installer should check digital signatures when downloading a package #3714
489 [UX] Allow the admin bar to be shown/hidden via a toggle #970
490 "Available updates" page seems unresponsive the more installed projects there are. #3337
491 [UX] Make node title a proper (sortable too) field. a.k.a. Title module in core. #933
492 Kickass Feature: Allow extracting a color scheme from an uploaded image, and apply it to themes supporting color module. #3328
493 Allow the addition of Dashboard context to any layout #6182
494 Support additional (popular) properties in the .info files of projects #119
495 Admin interface for manual garbage collection #2898
496 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
497 [DX] Add a `project_get_info` helper function. #2385
498 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
499 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
500 Allow leaving feedback on projects from the Project Installer UI. #1914

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics