Drupal 8 has a Views setting for block displays that allows you to hide them when there are no results, empty text or headers/footers. I thought Backdrop had a similar option (or maybe that was D7) but I couldn't find it...
Drupal 8's empty block setting
Recommend adding this to Backdrop (if not already) and putting it under 'Block settings' section (for some reason Drupal has it at the bottom of the 'Other' section).
GitHub Issue #:
3411
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We can no longer add contrib projects in the Tugboat sandboxes that we use for core PR's? Can this be fixed or is there a reason for this? We can add contrib projects to demo...
Apr 25th Weekly Meetings
The Mail System and MimeMail modules are now installed. I'll let you know if they solve the problem. Edit: Using Mail System with MimeMail I was able to send plain text emails. There is...
HTML Email treated as plain text
If you haven't already I recommend installing Mail System and MimeMail. The latter will help format emails as HTML and first helps with configuring which module will handle the formatting...
HTML Email treated as plain text