CKEditor 5 Media Management and Linking for Backdrop
A next generation media and linking solution with support for CKEditor 5
The best Drupal 10+ core and contrib projects, now available for Backdrop.
Overview
A brand new media management experience for Backdrop, provided by backports of the Drupal 10+ core Media Library and Media oEmbed modules, as well as enhanced versions of the contrib Entity Embed and Linkit modules.
Allow users to upload, browse, link and embed both local and remote media.
Quickly migrate from Drupal 7 with a host of backwards compatibility features and automatic upgrade processes.
*CKEditor 5 Media Management and Linking for Backdrop requires CKEditor 5 for Backdrop which is also available from Nickel City Creative.
Features
Media management and linking features include:
- Autocomplete functionality for inserted links, menu item paths and the CKEditor 5 link button.
- An AJAX-powered media browser for fields, form elements and WYSIWYG editors. Enables users to easily find, reuse and add new image, video, document and audio files.
- Support for remote media from oEmbed providers such as YouTube, TikTok and Reddit.
- The ability to embed files, content, taxonomy terms, users and more using CKEditor 5.
- A hassle free migration process from legacy media embedding to modern entity embedding.
- Automatic conversion of media embed tags when displaying content, enabling them to be rendered by Entity Embed.
- Automatic conversion of media embed tags when editing content, associating them with an embed button and enabling them to be edited using Entity Embed.
- Automatic conversion of Drupal embed tags to Backdrop embed tags when editing or displaying content.
- Automatic handling of overridden alt and text text.
- Parity with the latest Drupal 10+ modules including alt + title support, captioning, alignment, file usage tracking, field formatter rendering with custom display settings and shortcuts to entity edit pages.



