News & Announcements

The Backdrop CMS core committers and Project Management Committee recently met to discuss priorities for core development. As a community, it’s helpful to pause and take a focused look at where to direct our core development energy over the next 6-12 months.. Here is a draft list of possible priorities that we hope to discuss in detail over the next 5 weeks, at which point we hope to narrow our focus on 2-3 of these items. 

At a Backdrop User Group meeting on Dec 18, Laryn Kragt Bakker of Aten Design Group shared an early look at an important new project in development: Layout Paragraphs for Backdrop CMS.

The project began as part of a conversation around what layouts could look like for content editors in Backdrop – partially inspired by a Drupal 7 installation profile called Web Express, developed originally at the University of Colorado Boulder and deployed currently in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, which has provided backing for this project.

Demo on Youtube

Clean, Focused, and User-Friendly

BackdropCMS.org has launched a new home page design, showcasing a modern new look that better highlights the project’s strengths and growing community. The new home page is part of Backdrop's ongoing mission to serve the needs of site owners, designers, and developers  — especially in higher education and nonprofit sectors.

At the recent Stanford WebCamp, Laryn Bakker, developer with Aten Design Group, talked about "Layout Paragraphs: Answering the Same Questions, Differently." This session presented  innovative approaches for managing complex content layouts within Backdrop CMS, drawing inspiration from Drupal's Layout Paragraphs module.