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burdamagazinorg/thunder
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The thunder distribution

8.2.53(6y ago)104198.7k37[1 issues](https://github.com/BurdaMagazinOrg/thunder-distribution/issues)[5 PRs](https://github.com/BurdaMagazinOrg/thunder-distribution/pulls)4GPL-2.0-or-laterPHP

Since May 11Pushed 6y ago6 watchersCompare

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READMEChangelogDependencies (78)Versions (103)Used By (4)

[![Thunder](./files/images/thunder.svg?sanitize=true)](./files/images/thunder.svg?sanitize=true) Thunder [![Tweet](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/cb820a0ecc9645168e33b03925d7f14691262ddbaeaf66a0a91697803d0cba2d/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f747769747465722f75726c2f687474702f736869656c64732e696f2e7376673f7374796c653d736f6369616c)](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I%20just%20tried%20ThunderCMS.%20The%20CMS%20for%20professional%20publishing!&url=https://www.thunder.org&via=ThunderCoreTeam&hashtags=drupal8,publishing,ThunderCMS)
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[](#-thunder-)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6dc14250b157e870506202f3dc5892b3e394ea3733107bd5dba37cf36f10f8c8/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f42757264614d6167617a696e4f72672f7468756e6465722d646973747269627574696f6e2e7376673f6272616e63683d382e782d322e78)](https://travis-ci.org/BurdaMagazinOrg/thunder-distribution)

Thunder is a Drupal 8 distribution for professional publishers. It consists of the current Drupal 8 functionality, lots of useful modules from publishers and industry partners, and an environment which makes it easy to install, deploy and add new functionality.

Installing Thunder
------------------

[](#installing-thunder)

Instructions on how to install Thunder can be found at the [installation guide](https://thunder.github.io/thunder-documentation/quick-install).

### Updating to Thunder 3

[](#updating-to-thunder-3)

To update an existing Thunder 2 installation to Thunder 3 a few manual steps have to be executed. More informations about that can be found here: [How to update Thunder 2 to Thunder 3](https://thunder.github.io/thunder-documentation/update-2-to-3)

Feature Highlights
------------------

[](#feature-highlights)

### [![Storytelling](./files/images/story_fireplace_b.png)](./files/images/story_fireplace_b.png) Storytelling

[](#-storytelling)

Create thrilling articles with multimedia content. It’s easy to enrich your article with pictures, video, and social media snippets and arrange everything as you like it.

[![Storytelling](./files/images/storytelling.png)](./files/images/storytelling.png)

### [![Storytelling](./files/images/media_handling_b_0.png)](./files/images/media_handling_b_0.png) Media handling

[](#-media-handling)

Add pictures, galleries and videos to your article by just dragging and dropping everything right where you need it.

### [![Storytelling](./files/images/mobile_friendly_e_0.png)](./files/images/mobile_friendly_e_0.png) Mobile friendly

[](#-mobile-friendly)

With Thunder, editors and administrators can work from any device – on the go, easy and fast. Users benefit from a modern and flexible front end.

[![Mobile preview](./files/images/mobile.png)](./files/images/mobile.png)

### [![Storytelling](./files/images/schedule_content_g_0.png)](./files/images/schedule_content_g_0.png) Schedule content

[](#-schedule-content)

Plan at which day and time articles should be published – and when they shouldn’t be visible to the public anymore.

### [![Storytelling](./files/images/flexible_system_b_0.png)](./files/images/flexible_system_b_0.png) Flexible system

[](#-flexible-system)

Benefit from a wide range of additional functionality by industry partners or by one of more than 2,500 modules from the Drupal community.

### [![Storytelling](./files/images/drupal_community_b_1.png)](./files/images/drupal_community_b_1.png) Open Source

[](#-open-source)

Using open source technology reduces development costs and resources and makes you part of the Drupal community with more than 100,000 users actively contributing.

*[More information about the modules used in Thunder](https://burdamagazinorg.github.io/thunder-documentation/modules)*

Support
-------

[](#support)

For general help using Thunder, please refer to [the official Thunder documentation](https://thunder.github.io/thunder-documentation).

### Community support

[](#community-support)

For additional help, you can use one of this channel to ask question:

- [Slack](https://thunder.org/contact-us) (highly recommended for faster support)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ThunderCoreTeam)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Thunder-CMS-168018513979183/).

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

If you want to help, to make Thunder even better, please take a look at the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).

Development
-----------

[](#development)

For information on the installation and development of Thunder, please take a look at [docs/development.md](docs/development.md).

###  Health Score

48

—

FairBetter than 94% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity46

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community32

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity80

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~17 days

Recently: every ~47 days

Total

82

Last Release

2306d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dfe90fee04d5ef4d2bd1ea46dc65f6aec95b2486e2ce47f3439b3e06eb2f37dd?d=identicon)[dbosen](/maintainers/dbosen)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10208713?v=4)[Friedrich Preusser](/maintainers/fritze)[@Fritze](https://github.com/Fritze)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/432f79b1c37794c404036a9ae75bea5e6cca566f8d04eaba15189c9a509a0d16?d=identicon)[ol0lll](/maintainers/ol0lll)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e5fe26f6c00cc9587a003b2ec764ff9bd3eeaa8cb2fbad5947b150dc5cfe4e62?d=identicon)[mtodor](/maintainers/mtodor)

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Top Contributors

[![dbosen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6398151?v=4)](https://github.com/dbosen "dbosen (588 commits)")[![chrfritsch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/731161?v=4)](https://github.com/chrfritsch "chrfritsch (463 commits)")[![mtodor](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3965286?v=4)](https://github.com/mtodor "mtodor (93 commits)")[![ol0lll](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5558666?v=4)](https://github.com/ol0lll "ol0lll (46 commits)")[![tjwelde](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1248214?v=4)](https://github.com/tjwelde "tjwelde (13 commits)")[![alexpott](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/769634?v=4)](https://github.com/alexpott "alexpott (8 commits)")[![jakubhnilicka](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5845327?v=4)](https://github.com/jakubhnilicka "jakubhnilicka (4 commits)")[![Cyberschorsch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/273226?v=4)](https://github.com/Cyberschorsch "Cyberschorsch (4 commits)")[![landsman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3184228?v=4)](https://github.com/landsman "landsman (2 commits)")[![steffenr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/190477?v=4)](https://github.com/steffenr "steffenr (2 commits)")[![webflo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/123946?v=4)](https://github.com/webflo "webflo (1 commits)")

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cmsdrupalempower-editorial-teamsjournalismpublishingthunderwebsite

###  Code Quality

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Type Coverage Yes

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