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
601 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
602 Layout API: Provide contexts to custom blocks #5666
603 Views: Autocomplete exposed filters #2423
604 Is correcting the way form ID's named worth spending time on? #4706
605 [UX] Improve the default user management view and account edit form with links to manage permissions/roles #5918
606 [UX] Automatically sanitize the value of URL alias fields (remove preceding/trailing slashes and make sure the path is not absolute). #1957
607 Make the homepage field when anonymous commenters must/may leave their contact information configurable #4279
608 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
609 [D8][DX] Form API: Backport D8 `html_tag` element changes #3892
610 [UX] Allow selecting a layout for a view page from the view add/edit form. #1130
611 Add an 'URL alias update queue' for entities associated with an updated entity #1124
612 [UX] Allow 'manage file' from Image Library #3544
613 Allow editing term machine names (a.k.a. Taxonomy Machine Name module in core) #3093
614 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
615 Configuration manager to offer choices when config staging folder includes files #6383
616 [BC] Decide on best way to make improvements to the CSS for core without breaking existing sites #4167
617 Allow admin theme CSS for dialogs to be used on front-end #2659
618 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
619 [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements #5823
620 Optimize `views_handler_field_field()` to only load full entities if needed #2104
621 [UX] Project installer: Clarify reason that the server does not support automatic updates #4470
622 [UX] Add responsive option to pager choice for Views and Search #6094
623 [UX] Layout UI: Collapsible block groups. #1691
624 Add a global/standardized way to add icon to external links #4047
625 Improve the way search (re)indexing works. #1337
626 [UX] Views UI: in place rearrange of fields, filter and sort criteria. #963
627 Media: Use field mapping to automatically store metadata/EXIF info #3333
628 Convert the taxonomy listing and feed at /taxonomy/term/%term to Views #145
629 [UX] Hide all field labels by default #2902
630 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
631 Allow Link fields to be restricted to only internal or external URLs #5678
632 Menu router refactoring #2400
633 Improve Instant Search Reset on Modules and Permissions Page #5933
634 [UX] Layouts UI: Reusable visibility condition templates. #1942
635 1.15 [UX] Follow-ups for auto menu settings in core #4251
636 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
637 Allow content types to be enabled/disabled via the admin UI #3883
638 Allow pseudo fields to have configurable settings #3859
639 [UX] Appearance page: Denote the theme selected as admin theme (same as we do for the default theme). #1105
640 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
641 [UX] Content view "Operations" drop-down lists available operations in random order. #548
642 [UX] Add a log-in form to the update.php page, and expose it to anonymous users ONLY when db updates are pending. #3078
643 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
644 [UX] Provide some help text about temporary files in the "Manage files" form #6388
645 Search form does not allow to be styled using icons #5573
646 Allow regions titles #2647
647 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
648 [UX] Either get rid of MENU_SUGGESTED_ITEM or change the way it works in a way that fixes UX WTFs #5834
649 [META] [UX] Add more Display Suite features #2084
650 [DX] Allow `theme_get_setting()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6107
651 [UX] Add the ability for default layouts to be cloned (like views). #1674
652 Allow fully deleting text formats #4013
653 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
654 [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
655 Link to all release notes between installed and recommended versions #3303
656 [UX] [DX] Move the user page to a separate module #109
657 File entity setting for garbage collection #2897
658 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
659 Change message to "Your comment has been updated" on comment update #5701
660 Provide a mechanism to load low-level backends #2383
661 [UX] install.php: Provide help text for site name #4675
662 Add a form API element for `image` that includes image type and size validators natively. #5946
663 Allow form elements for updates in update.php #1912
664 Add target="_blank" attribute to "Powered by Backdrop CMS" link #4230
665 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
666 Create a list of all entity types under Reports. #1449
667 Search terms along with nodes #3850
668 [UX] Better alignment for drop buttons. #1090
669 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
670 [META] [UX] Provide a instant search/filter UI interface pattern for listing pages and enhance existing ones. #503
671 Provide an actual maintenance mode #3060
672 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
673 [UX] Reduce the size of the potentially unwieldy parent link selector on content type and content edit pages #6392
674 Modify `.htaccess` to allow backdrop to serve `.well-known` URIs #5583
675 [UX] Add links for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page #2626
676 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
677 Introduce `entity_goto()` shortcut for `backdrop_goto()` on Entity paths #5838
678 Move the file `description` column to file_managed table. #2070
679 [D7] Add setting for which roles can be assigned #4437
680 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
681 [UX] Move non-displayed pseudo fields to vertical tab or group on "Manage fields" page #4002
682 link fields for in page navigation #go-to-here #1308
683 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
684 [UX] Fix caching of favicons #898
685 [UX] More info on field removal #3262
686 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
687 Make new field labels visible by default #6192
688 Replace content translation with entity translation (and add an upgrade path) #52
689 Refactor the generation of SQL for dates and times into the database driver #2890
690 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
691 [D10] Views: (even more) responsive grid format #5719
692 [UX] Add a requirements warning when site_mail domain doesn't match. #2364
693 [UX] Search block: Provide options to render either as a separate field/button, or as a searchbar #4652
694 [D7] Provide method to get the pager's element ID #5958
695 [D8][SR] Add the ability to block IP addresses (feature parity with Drupal). #1878
696 [UX] Support importing D7 views exports (at least in the 1.x cycle) #4213
697 [UX] Project Browser should run some pre-flight checks #1858
698 Basis: Update box-sizing method #4208
699 [UX] Make special field items (such as title, language and path alias) available in the "Manage display" tab. #1444
700 [SR] Better/safer file type validation #3830

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics