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 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
402 [UX] Clarify Field Type choices on Field Settings page #2508
403 Create option to add a supplemental stylesheet to Basis - to safely make css updates #4512
404 [UX] Flexible templates: Replace the single "Add row" button with multiple ones #5166
405 [A11Y][UX] Admin bar: Allow navigation by keyboard arrows (besides Tab/Shift+Tab) #1982
406 [UX][D8] Make position of #description (help text) configurable via the API #1403
407 Flexible layout templates: Allow selecting an existing layout template, as a starting point #4115
408 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
409 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
410 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
411 [UX][DX] provide utility functions to retrieve field labels #3620
412 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
413 Preview of menu machine name is inaccurate while adding a menu #5807
414 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
415 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
416 Expand the "Global settings" fieldset when creating new fields #5345
417 [UX] Project Installer: On each cron run, pull and cache locally a project list from b.org #2193
418 Saving a content type display should not return up to the Manage Displays list #4291
419 Allow to filter interface translation for "context" with "contains" (LIKE) #4940
420 [UX] Image styles: make crop and scale+crop effects smart. #1774
421 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
422 [DX] Use `token_get_all()` for parsing settings*.php files rather than using regex in `backdrop_rewrite_settings()` #6297
423 VBO: option for separate button per action & option to override labels #802
424 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
425 [META][D8][UX] Convert all confirmation pages to confirmation dialogs instead. #3769
426 Add permissions to view and use button "Clear log messages" #3056
427 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
428 [UX] Allow switching the menu being used for a menu block. #3410
429 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
430 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
431 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
432 Prevent users from accidentally exposing their email addresses by using it for their username #2486
433 [A11Y] UX Fields to add html tag Attributes for fields, menu links and blocks #5158
434 Allow display settings for book navigation #1976
435 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
436 Make Backdrop misconfiguration messages friendlier #6110
437 [D8] Introduce a new `file_url_transform_relative()` function #4106
438 [DX] Provide an easy way to add classes to the wrapper tags of form elements #3917
439 [UX] Show result count and result range in search results #3261
440 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
441 Offer to remove module dependencies that are no longer needed #3582
442 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
443 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
444 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
445 Dashboard: Add a Configuration Manager widget #5322
446 Block configuration settings: Support adding IDs. #2145
447 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
448 Extend the "Hide path display" feature ("page-less nodes") to other core entities #4912
449 Custom/managed publishing options. #1742
450 [UX] Add help text and improve the UI to clarify things around layout templates #6314
451 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
452 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
453 [UX] Installer: request site configuration info (site name, admin account etc.) while the installer is running in parallel #3042
454 [D8] Views Content Cache #3399
455 UX Idea: Allow rewriting the output of fields on display (without having to use views or custom code). #2608
456 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
457 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
458 [UX] Side-by-side content translation UI #2438
459 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
460 [UX][DX] When a module is enabled, automatically set a message containing the link to configure #5135
461 [DX] Add CSS classes to form elements that are hidden/shown via #states. #1969
462 [UX] Add a "Back" button to the "Add block" dialog. #1644
463 Add permissions for viewing blocked user account profiles (and/or their content) #6123
464 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
465 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
466 Add display of file details to the 'manage file' form. #3904
467 Add node's 'Menu link titles' to views #3248
468 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
469 Add allowed_values_function to list field UI #3565
470 Bulk delete taxonomy terms #2875
471 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
472 [D8][DX] Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules and layout templates #5316
473 Update 'Syndicate' block allow selection of available feeds #2136
474 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
475 Add a localization concept for user-provided strings to core #4894
476 [UX] do not lock the admin bar when a modal is active. #1721
477 [UX] Allow the label (perhaps machine name too?) of fields to be edited straight from the "Manage fields" and "Comment fields" tab. #1443
478 Consider displaying which modules were enabled/disabled after enabling/disabling on the "List Modules" page #6331
479 [UX] Consider moving operations out of their drop-buttons on wide screens. #733
480 Convert /admin/content/book to a View #3735
481 [WP][SR] Add email obfuscator to core #3270
482 DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table already exists in DatabaseSchema #2585
483 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
484 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
485 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
486 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
487 CKEditor5 Sections #5115
488 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
489 Re-introduce block caching support. #1619
490 [UX][PS] Replace the current token browser in core with the Fast Token Browser implementation from contrib #6143
491 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
492 [UX] Cannot access menu items in too long menus when the menu is set to stick at the top of the page. #1003
493 [META] [UX] Improve the overall creation and placement of custom blocks experience. #1277
494 Installer module should check for file-write permissions #3893
495 Basis theme killer feature: Automatically generate color scheme from provided brand (logo/colors) #3231
496 Add more HTML5 elements for dates #326
497 [DX] CMI: see if we can make those "storage" numbers in .json files less cryptic. #3562
498 [UX] integrate file editing into the file field widget #2810
499 Add cropping to default image styles #5590
500 Add ability to edit a revision's message #5861

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics