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 [D10] Views page displays: Provide a new option to use the admin theme #6025
602 Ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context #3531
603 [DX] Introduce a new `user_permission_get_info()` function #4097
604 [UX] Create a consistent and responsive step wizard for update.php and install.php #6290
605 [UX] Display php error messages in a dedicated block so we can limit visibility per role. #2139
606 [DX] Add project's 'install time' to system table #1726
607 [UX] Move admin menu system tasks to their own dropdown? #1368
608 Layouts: Visibility conditions available when one of two required contexts are missing #4594
609 [D8] Allow enabling modules (and themes/layouts?) via config sync / import #5163
610 [UX] add the ability to order menus #3003
611 [UX] Combine Permissions for `Field` and `Field UI` #4710
612 [UX] Do not reload the page when using the "Reset" button in the instant filters (modules listing and permissions page) #5910
613 Use config for color module palettes #2554
614 [DX] Form API: Provide a `'type' => 'css_classes'` form element. #3702
615 Clean-up of Database after Migration from Drupal 7.x #6109
616 [UX] Layout UI: Per-block "dirty" form messages. #2430
617 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
618 [UX] Improve the "Required by: Field type(s) in use..." info in modules page. #850
619 Use smart dictionaries for object compression #1511
620 [UX] Some UI improvements to Book module #5331
621 [WP] Media Library #3203
622 Enabling Backdrop-only required modules (e.g., Entity Plus) during upgrade from D7 #5499
623 [UX][D8] Create/select layout for a specific page from the content add/edit form. #1131
624 [D8] Add "Required" and "Show by default" option for "Text area with a summary" field/widget #5793
625 [UX] Language switcher block: allow some basic customization via the block configuration form #4924
626 [SR] Facilitate 2FA+MultiFactor compatibility (2FA/two-factor -> MFA/multi-factor) #2788
627 Search terms along with nodes #3850
628 [UX] Project installer: Provide link to update report from installer update tab #4471
629 [DX] [D8] Add a `validate()` method to entity classes #6061
630 Alternative approach to translating config, using get/set #3522
631 [UX] Provide preview and confirmation of permission changes before saving them #6320
632 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
633 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
634 [WP][UX] Remove "tabs" for menu local tasks, move into contextual links (and/or admin bar) #464
635 [UX] Add nowrap CSS to field suffixes (ex the machine name span) #1349
636 Layout API: function to add a block to a layout region programmatically #5662
637 Replace the draggable.png icon with a modern one, and add up/down-only and left/right-only variants. #5152
638 [UX] Views: better indicate which View Displays and Sections are affected by a change #2985
639 [UX][D10] Show bulk operations only when items have been selected, and hide filters when that happens #4701
640 Enable Entity Reference in new installations #5913
641 [UX] Maintenance mode: Do not render the "Create new account" tab, the navigation menu and the account menu when in the "Log in" or "Reset password" pages. #2529
642 Views: Filter results by matching data with current content #3683
643 Add new Date field widget to utilize HTML5 #date input type #4255
644 Consider adding an easy way to provide click-to-copy functionality in core #6135
645 Add "All day" functionality for the HTML5 widget #6142
646 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
647 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
648 VBO: option for separate button per action & option to override labels #802
649 Responsive tabs for Seven: change the arrows to an ellipsis and an "x" close icon. #1498
650 Add a "remove" UI for modules & themes (& layouts?) #5320
651 Support tokens in Views "Global: custom text" field #3189
652 Provide an option to customize text for the "required" indicator and validation error for fields. #5507
653 [UX] Make the theme preview thumbnail clickable and show larger version of screenshot (à la lightbox). #1127
654 Create a printable Status Report #5821
655 [D8][UX] Add a "Placeholder" input field to Views Exposed Filters to allow HTML5 Placeholder #4910
656 [UX] Decrease size of help text input textareas #2747
657 [SR] Better/safer file type validation #3830
658 [UX] Provide indication in the admin interface, when config values have been overridden in settings.php #4455
659 'Manage files' view sometimes shows incorrect filename #3507
660 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
661 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
662 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
663 [UX] Auto Updates for security/modules #414
664 [DX] Allow JS in theme .info files to optionally specify header/footer as scope (default to header for BC) #5677
665 [UX] Create more intuitive behavior for "Customize" button to manage displays #5129
666 Allow title callbacks to return unsanitized text (after being run through t()) #2974
667 Browse Server Button on Link Dialog in Ckeditor so a list of files on the site can be displayed #4688
668 Auto-update `.htaccess`, `robots.txt`, or `settings.php` (when we can) #5929
669 [UX] CKEditor configuration: Add a label to the "button separator" button #3666
670 [UX] CKEditor - Provide default styles #4233
671 [UX] Rename vocabularies & terms #4222
672 Redis super easy with Redis Enterprise Caching to improve performance Backdrop CMS #6165
673 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
674 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
675 [UX] Move the confirmation dialog for deletion of nodes to a modal. #769
676 Enable revisions by default / CRAP and entity revisions everywhere in core. #1465
677 Add admin tagging API to entities, menus, etc. #5307
678 Cached anonymous page and "background fetch" cause site rendering issues on LiteSpeed server #5525
679 [UX] Default drop-button action for node types should be 'manage fields' #1116
680 Provide a form-item-inline class to help admin forms #5829
681 Make the 404 / 403 page setting "translatable" #4881
682 Create new form that wraps the "file/add" and "Media Library Selector" forms for re-use #2720
683 [UX] Layouts: Allow menu "source" to be changed from within any menu block #3820
684 [UX] Change the password reset form to use a single password field + show/hide toggle #4440
685 CKEditor: Figure out a way to clear its cache so that plugin changes show up right away. #3460
686 Do not throw exceptions in the updater, when nothing's broken (yet) #4003
687 Trim textfields? #6386
688 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
689 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
690 [UX] Make sidebars collapsible in Harris layout #5486
691 [UX] Better Menu permissions #384
692 Put all search results on a single page (with facets?) #1330
693 [D8] Image styles: add "Convert" effect/action #5107
694 [UX] Add "Configure page title" tab to Layout admin pages #3983
695 Extend the 'hidden paths' feature to taxonomy #4653
696 Idea: allow "pinning" base themes to specific versions (to solve the issue with breaking changes in core themes) #5941
697 [UX][D8] Views: Expose responsive classes in the UI via table settings #3656
698 Entity reference 7.x-1.6 #5952
699 Restore Configurable Actions to core #3646
700 [DX] Allow enabling/disabling theme debugging via the admin UI #4211

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics