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.
This post is was created on Dec 1, 2024 but it took a while to publish it.
BADCamp 2024: Celebrating Community, Simplicity, and Innovation
In the spirit of celebrating 10 years of Backdrop since the first release in 2015 one idea suggested was to invite people to write about the origin of Drop the Dragon with full mythological license. Here is my submission.
How did Drop the Dragon become the mascot of Backdrop CMS?
This year BackdropCMS had a big presence at FloridaCamp. Bronze sponsorship , in-person meetings, and big presentation
One of the things that we’ve worked hard to create in Backdrop CMS is an improved Editor experience. As a fork of Drupal 7, we inherited the power and flexibility of custom content types, fields, and views from Drupal. But, we also inherited some confusing user interfaces that sometimes frustrate and discourage site editors. While Backdrop CMS has implemented a number of changes that we think improve the editor experience, there is still a great deal of room for improvement.
As of May 15th, 2025, with the release of Backdrop CMS version 1.31.0, Backdrop CMS will require PHP version 7.1 or greater.
Currently, the listed requirement for Backdrop CMS is PHP 5.6 or greater, a version of PHP that has long since reached the end of its official life.
Backdrop CMS is excited to announce that we are a Bronze level sponsor for Florida Drupal Camp this coming Feb 21-23 in Orlando, Florida. The Backdrop CMS community has been participating in Florida Drupal Camp for over five years, offering sessions, training workshops and BOF sessions. We very much appreciate the community support that we’ve experienced attending this well organized camp that draws participants from across the country and around the world.
The Backdrop community is proud to announce the release of version 1.30 of Backdrop CMS! This is our 30th feature release in the course of the past 10 years.
As part of our commitment to deliver the most usable product, new "minor" releases come out three times a year, on a regular schedule. This allows site maintainers to know when to expect updates, and they can plan accordingly. See https://backdropcms.org/releases for more information on our release cycle.
The Backdrop CMS Project Management Committee is responsible for guiding the direction of the Backdrop project. Three most recent updates from PMC are: Backdrop CMS was a sponsor of Badcamp in October 2024, Joseph Flatt has recently been added to our team of core committers, Irina Zaks has recently been added to our PMC team.