Acquia Lightning delivers a powerful set of tools to help your development team and marketing team get started and have a great experience with Drupal from day 1. Use proven modules for your page layouts, to schedule content, preview the experience before it goes live, and more.
Lightning is optimized for the developer-friendly, scalable and secure Acquia Cloud.
Lightning has intricate workflows that streamline the processes for reviewing, approving, scheduling, and publishing content.
Lightning 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 9 distribution, is the best place to start creating new sites and experiences. Lightning is fully maintained and updated by Acquia so you have the assurance it's enterprise grade and selects the best of what's available in the Drupal Community.
Lightning not only empowers you to develop with Drupal, it makes your workflow more productive helping you deploy content as efficiently as possible. Configurable workflows allow you to govern your content though approval stages and schedule content for future publication.
Lightning gives you all of Drupal 9 plus curated capabilities focused on making page layouts, media management, and workflows faster and easier, before they’re available in Drupal core.
| Feature | Category | Lightning | Drupal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metatag, Pathauto, Redirect, Token, Search API | Bundled Contrib | — | |
| Support media types: audio, tweets, instagram posts, videos, images | Media | — | |
| Bulk image uploads | Media | — | |
| Image cropping | Media | — | |
| Slideshows and carousels | Media | — | |
| Embeddable WYSIWYG | Media | — | |
| Default Layout Components: Google Maps, Slideshows, Media, Banner, Text, Entity Reference | Layout | — | |
| Default content types and layouts | Layout | — | |
| Feature | Category | Lightning | Drupal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default workflow states | Workflow | — | |
| Workflow scheduling | Workflow | — | |
| Moderation sidebar | Workflow | — | |
| Moderation dashboard | Workflow | — | |
| Revisions + Landing pages work! | Workflow | — | |
| Autosave | Workflow | — | |
| Open API docs | API | — | |
| Oauth | API | — | |
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.
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