It seems potentially useful to allow install profiles to be run, not only at site creation, but also at any point afterwards. That would make them useful for publishing "recipes" which would mostly involve the creation of site building items such as content types, views, and fields. However, they could also be used to install contrib modules, themes, and layouts where necessary.
This would allow users to use a install profile even after they have installed backdrop and otherwise started building their sites. And it would allow them to run more than one install profile, each of which would provide a different set of functionality.
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You can edit images and load them back to the same folder with the same name and extension, this will not create a problem. Replace directly in the file system, without the use of CMS, for CMS...
Image manipulation on server?
I was under the impression you could not do that - don't know where I got that idea from... thought it had to do with the way Backdrop manages image files.
Image manipulation on server?
I think given the warning on the source site: At this time, if your new project can afford to require PHP 5.5+, which it should, please use PHP's native password_hash() /...
July 31, 2025