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 Deprecate watchdog() #4749
402 [UX] Views "Multiple field settings" should appear on field display settings, too #2993
403 Don't hard-code the line wrapping in backdrop_mail() and _backdrop_wrap_mail_line() #6237
404 Feature to add multiple Layouts together #5585
405 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
406 [UX] Running cron.php from browser should return a success message rather than a blank page #2535
407 EntityStorageException: The username and email are both addresses that do not match. (But what are they?) #5857
408 [UX] "Cancel" links and "Save and add another" buttons when adding vocabulary terms, menu items, and user accounts #1004
409 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
410 Allow user to set custom background color on core hero block #3918
411 [DX] Provide a utility for retrieving a single project's info (and settings?) #332
412 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
413 [DX] hook_field_*_settings_form() should have $form and $form_state parameters #3590
414 Allow modules to provide flexible template row styles #5427
415 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
416 [D9] Date: allow setting MIN and MAX dates, only past dates, or only future dates, or both #4648
417 Create pseudo tokens to extend various functionality in text formatters ex :nolink #4992
418 Consider exposing `form_cache_expiration` and/or providing an option so that it can be cleared along with other caches. #3191
419 Add mini pager option to Search module #6083
420 [D8] Keep a snapshot of configuration directory in database #4212
421 [UX] add "Allow Upscaling" checkbox to crop, and scale and crop effects #2763
422 Ability to add custom file fields to Node Edit Form #5738
423 [DX][UX] Form API: Make it so that required fields that are hidden via #states are only validated when visible. #2732
424 Consider using a flat-file cache for the page cache #716
425 Allow comment types independent of content types #2049
426 Add check that active configuration directory is writable to system_requirements #5538
427 [UX] Add a "Place in a layout" action for menus in the menu listing page. #3406
428 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
429 User roles form: Replace the "Required" column with a useful "Description" column #5179
430 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
431 [WP][UX] Use admin-theme for Log In form #4410
432 Add state_override function to core #4725
433 [UX] CKeditor: Allow the Styles dropdown to use tag names (for easy use of the <small> tag) #2980
434 [UX] Allow reusable blocks to be made non-reusable (by cloning them into a non-reusable instance) #4303
435 Simplify Layout configuration #5592
436 Redirects write to json files? #4001
437 [UX] Consolidate database-related information in the status report page, and add some basic db usage metrics #5864
438 [UX] Rich-text Image/text flow. #987
439 Changing theme cache workflow #2349
440 [UX] Display a reminder to uninstall modules after disabling them #3911
441 Don't count markup characters as part of the text length #309
442 Create a tests case for version upgrade #1874
443 Contact form message templates edited via the UI #3568
444 [PS][D9] Acquia Site Studio Visual Page Builder with a front-end, drag and drop user interface #5403
445 Add Selection Rules to Layouts for Filtering / Limiting Context Values #5376
446 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
447 Allow selecting an existing date format for log messages #4621
448 Comment titles should be removed from presentation and from database if not used #4967
449 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
450 Can we add a class to the admin tabs? #4207
451 CKEditor: Provide a setting to switch skins. #2729
452 Allow altering image style urls #5745
453 [UX] Contact module: Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the admin UI - allow customizing the label of the field in the public-facing form #5992
454 Provide an option to make language required for nodes (do not allow language = "none"). #673
455 [UX] Consider saving changes to custom block text without requiring a second save. #2038
456 Database log message is truncated at 56 characters and not configurable #5553
457 [UX] CKEditor: Include the Balloon Toolbar plugin introduced in 4.8, and start using it. #3356
458 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
459 [Meta] Advanced configuration overrides (allow regex/wildcards and negation of settings within arrays) #5172
460 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
461 Custom Block contextual link #4390
462 Request: More style options for the table format in Views #2961
463 More useful tags for views #6268
464 Add new PR template, with reminder to reference an issue #5605
465 [WP] Add URL Alias as machine name-like field to node titles #3993
466 Bring back the initial functionality of _field_write_instance function #5875
467 [UX] Provide an instant search filter for the permissions page (/admin/config/people/permissions). #980
468 [UX] Project Browser: Add links with helper actions (configure/settings/enable) next to project installation status. #2335
469 [UX] Rich Text editor inserting/updating images before a file is uploaded #3900
470 [UX][D8] Convert user pictures to an actual Image Field #243
471 [UX] Admin bar: allow search results to be selected via keyboard up/down buttons. #1850
472 [META] Use UUIDs in more places #3563
473 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
474 Update.php should automatically apply any new configuration defaults #1832
475 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
476 [WP] Add Token Filter to core #5352
477 Add option to run-test.sh to allow skipping troublesome tests. #4607
478 [SR] Provide a status report entry for the database connection status #4945
479 Create Wordpress install profile #3127
480 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
481 [DX] Introduce a `config_delete()` function, and improve/fix documentation around config deletion. #4186
482 Modify the CKEditor image dialog to use the new wrapper form for "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" mechanisms #2719
483 [DX] Introduce a server-side conditional system (to possibly replace `#states`) #5750
484 Add 'Field HTML Trim' to core #6001
485 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
486 [UX] Pathauto follow-up: implement autocomplete on fields that support tokens (when the user types "[") #2017
487 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
488 [DX] Add a helper function for messaging after saving settings forms #1364
489 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
490 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
491 [UX] CKEditor: Replace the "Add a caption" checkbox with a "Caption" field #1093
492 [UX] Provide options-element-like UI for the "Style List" text area for text formats #4385
493 [DX] Layout Contexts not being passed to block in hook_block_view(). #2953
494 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
495 [A11Y] Add `role="main"` attribute to primary content region in each Layout template #5610
496 [UX] Admin Bar: Add a single, centralized point of entry for adding content, files, user accounts etc. #5884
497 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
498 Make problems with layout blocks more discoverable. #2320
499 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
500 Content creation page cleanup #202

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics