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
901 Show notice in the admin UI when .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php have been updated in a release, and either link to instructions, or auto-update when safe/possible #5911
902 Rename default Contact form category #4703
903 Seventy two theme #5928
904 [DX] Provide a way to retrieve default/OOTB config values #4262
905 Build a flexible "JSON consumer" block for Dashboard #3891
906 [UX] Layout UI: Visibility conditions: URL path: Allow browsing and selecting pages. #1129
907 Add pagers to watchdog entries #3546
908 [D8] Trim summary on word boundary #599
909 [UX] Mobile project browser: decrease amt of scrolling needed on Mobile #3097
910 [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields #5348
911 Better reporting for CKEditor 4 vs 5 in Telemetry #6342
912 Setting intelligent defaults during content type fields creation #291
913 [UX] Display the "Default" block title on Add/Configure block UI #2665
914 Change the default profile on tests from Standard to Testing #4943
915 Provide views field handler to access project properties from the `info` column in the `system` table #5820
916 Establish a "fonts" directory in a place where it can be shared between core and contrib themes. #2127
917 Add visibility conditions for the "login pages" and admin paths (and negation for them as well) #4476
918 OOTB: Provide an option to globally disable the personal contact forms, and make it the default for new installations #6067
919 [UX] Provide a theme switcher. #1711
920 [DX][D8] CMI: Add config_exclude functionality to core #4079
921 [D8] Add a phone field type #1342
922 [DX] Add a hook_library_alter() to remove unwanted things more easily #3718
923 Optimize core book module via book_cache port #976
924 Content creation page cleanup #202
925 Allow PHP libraries to be added via hook_library_info() #2911
926 Javascript end-to-end testing #5160
927 Move the Color module to a contributed project #5667
928 Implement <time> tag for time stamps in core, e.g. date posted, comment date #2416
929 [DX] Config uses the term 'clear', change it to 'remove' or something more intuitive #2387
930 Simple Mode - Ability to toggle between simple and advanced admin features #4692
931 [UX] Append `This role receives all new permissions by default.` text to the description of the admin role #5940
932 Add indicator for menu-level visibility conditions #1929
933 More replacement tokens for node urls #4239
934 [UX][WP] CKEditor: Add word count #1477
935 Add plugins to ckeditor available in D7 contrib module via CDN, but not in Backdrop core. #3875
936 [UX] Maximum upload size should be an integer element #1120
937 [UX] Machine names: replace/ignore invalid characters as they are being typed. #3541
938 Use data-* to check modules dependencies before submit #565
939 [UX] Allow moving blocks from the front end? #3086
940 Enable dropdown menu for menus in header block #5330
941 Trim textfields? #6386
942 Add CSS (JS?) code formatting automation #5568
943 [D8] CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images #2658
944 [D8][DX] FAPI: Allow easy sorting of the translated options of select elements #5824
945 Layouts: Provide a way to define conditions based on field values. #2103
946 Allow limiting access to menu items per-role #4465
947 Allow more granular HTML filter options for HTML attributes, not just tags #6100
948 Replace user signatures & pictures with fields #1679
949 [DX][D8] Provide a single command to install & run Backdrop #4040
950 [UX] Hide redundant items in Node Edit form. #3705
951 Remove the "Layout" part from the layout names in the layouts list. #945
952 [DX] Form API: provide a 'type' => 'status_message' element. #3329
953 Confirmation dialog for orphaned files #2899
954 [SR][UX][DX] Provide a `sensitivetext` formAPI element that pulls from settings as well as state #5136
955 Site-wide settings for file garbage collection #2896
956 Add layouts into the search index #5128
957 Add per-bundle token info to hook_token_info() #5707
958 Options to change parent link behaviour in responsive dropdown menus #2370
959 [D8] Add Breakpoints in core #4669
960 [UX] Inject "mini modules forms" in various places where it makes sense #5949
961 [UX] CKEditor: autocorrection. #1902
962 Improve 'Last updated' date shown when installing modules. #4224
963 Views: allow setting the "Items to display" value to "unlimited". #1460
964 Admin UI: denote settings that may be overridden in settings.php #3856
965 [UX] Redesign the Themes page #1103
966 Ship core with a layout that uses node/% as context #3530
967 [UX] Make it easy to find newly-added modules on the modules page #532
968 Reconfiguring the administrative layout #3072
969 Tweak Theme Overview page to group sub-themes by parent theme #5318
970 [UX] Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form #6390
971 Add ability to skip running tests on PR #5575
972 [UX] Introduce button group UI component #2643
973 [DX] Form API: Allow individual options in select elements to be set to disabled #5837
974 [DX] bring back db_fetch_array() and db_fetch_object() #2081
975 [DX] Allow `config_get()` to return a default value - like `settings_get()` and `update_variable_get()` do #6108
976 [META][UX] Figure out a better way to be able to insert introductory/summary/footer text in various places. #1673
977 [D7] Add alt and title fields for the image file type? #4007
978 Backdrop needs a "related posts" feature #1317
979 Add an upgrade path from Admin Menu to Admin bar #3687
980 Add warnings in site status page (end elsewhere?) to remove contrib module folders if added to core. #915
981 [UX] Taxonomy checkboxes/radios: Use indentation instead of dashes to denote children terms. #3292
982 [D8] Ensure that entries are written to watchdog table #63

Pages

Log in or register to add new topics