User Guide

Read through a curated collection of online documentation, where you’ll find information on everything from installing Backdrop CMS for the first time to creating your own layouts, themes, and modules.

Read our User Guide

Live Chat

Drop in and say hi in Live chat with Zulip.

Backdrop Forum

Join the Backdrop Forum and exchange ideas with the rest of the community in the form of questions, answers, and discussions on any given topic.

Join our Forum

Developer Documentation

The Documentation & API Website contains our list of public functions, hooks, and sub-system documentation. It also contains all the change records documenting differences between Drupal 7 and Backdrop.

Check out the API

Github Issue Queue

The Issue Queue is where all discussion happens around adding new features or fixing bugs. Backdrop also has a handful of other repositories and queues.

Browse the core Issue Queue

Books

Cover of Beginning Backdrop CMS
“Beginning Backdrop CMS”
by Todd Tomlinson
Cover of Migrating from Drupal to Backdrop
“Migrating from Drupal to Backdrop”
by Todd Tomlinson

Two great books by Todd Tomlinson, author of “Pro Drupal 7 Development”

Professional Services

Check out professional service providers for Hosting and Development for Backdrop CMS. 

Social Media

BlueSky

Backdrop has an official BlueSky account at @backdropcms.bsky.social.

Mastodon

Backdrop has an official Mastodon account at @backdropcms. [phpc.social]

Twitter

Backdrop has an official Twitter account at @backdropcms.

Facebook

Backdrop has an official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/backdropcms.

LinkedIn

Backdrop has an official LinkedIn group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6930143.