Acquia Lightning delivers a powerful set of tools to your editorial team and site builders right out of the box so they can build Drupal 8 sites better and faster. Choose your page layouts, drag and drop digital assets, schedule content, and preview the experience before it goes live.
Develop with Lightning to cut development time by 30 percent and deploy Drupal sites that help you get to market faster and empower your editorial teams with easy to use tools.
Lightning is optimized for the developer-friendly, scalable and secure Acquia Cloud.
Empower enterprise editorial teams so they can work smarter, not harder, on layouts, media, content and experiences that engage and convert visitors.
Eliminate complexity for enterprise experience builders with tools that allow them to drag and drop images, videos and other rich media, and content assets into layouts.
Use Lightning to configure and manage workflows that streamline the processes for reviewing, approving, scheduling, and publishing content.
Lightning undergoes regular security audits to keep your sites safe and is built on Drupal, one of the most secure web application frameworks in the world.
Acquia Lightning, a Drupal 8 distribution, is the best place to start creating new sites and experiences. Lightning gives you all of Drupal 8 plus curated capabilities focused on making page layouts, media management, content creation and workflows faster and easier, before they’re available in Drupal core. Lightning accelerates Drupal development: more out-of-the-box means faster time to value.
Lightning not only empowers you to develop with Drupal, it makes your workflow more productive so you can keep the content and digital experiences flowing and keep your customers engaged. Configurable workflows allow you to govern your content though approval stages and schedule content for future publication.
| Features | Acquia Lightning | Drupal Core |
|---|---|---|
| Drag-and-drop layout builder | ||
| Structured authoring with embedded media support | ||
| Media library with support for multiple file types | ||
| Workflow with content dashboard and moderation sidebar | ||
| Additional out-of-the-box content types (i.e., Google maps, banners, slideshows) | ||
| Additional out-of-the-box templates for Layout Builder in Lightning | ||
| More-user-friendly administrative theme / interface | ||
| Customizable, auto-generated URLs | ||
| Translate and localize content to many languages | ||
| Responsive administrative and OOTB front-end themes | ||
| Flexible content architecture | Additional media types & predefined page building components | Highly structured content architecture |
| Security | Follows Drupal core security cycle & provides extended security support | Proven, secure CMS & application framework. |
| Manage many sites using a single code base | ||
| Integrations | Adds Lightning API to help developers create JSON:API decoupled apps | API-first design to integrate other applications |
Learn why Acquia Lightning is the best starting point for Drupal projects from Drupal founder and Acquia CTO Dries Buytaert.
Mindtree chose Aqcuia for the replatforming of mindtree.com, and Acquia Lightning got the site up and running on Drupal 8 in record time.
OpenEDU is a pre-configured Drupal 8 implementation that is specifically built for higher education institutions.
