Create and publish great content easily

Create and publish great content easily

Big community which makes Thunder better every day

Big community making Thunder better every day

Free and without any obligations

Free and without any obligations

Designed to meet the needs and expectations of professional publishing.

Thunder is a web-based open-source Content Management System setting new standards for publishers’ CMS. It is based on Drupal, enabling its users to benefit from the Drupal community's continuous development efforts, as well as specific modules contributed by Hubert Burda Media, other publishers and industry partners – the Thunder Coalition.

With the Thunder Coalition, Burda is establishing a culture of collaboration and sharing within the publishing industry. Thunder is 100% non-profit – it was released as open source software under the GNU General Public License. All publishers can use and enhance the system with no licensing cost.

Features

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.

Media handling

Media handling

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

How does it work?

It's open source!

This means Thunder's feature set is growing constantly and evolving with the help of a united community – the Drupal community and the Thunder Coalition. Everyone can use Thunder's existing modules as well as develop and share new ones. Each partner will benefit from the contributions of the other. 

The idea behind Thunder
Open Source Software

Open Source Software

Thunder is licensed under the GNU General Public License and therefor free of any licence or maintenance fee for an unlimited time. No business model. No need to pay.

It's getting better every day!

It's getting better every day!

Thunder is maintained by the Thunder Core Team and continuously developed by the Thunder Coalition, making it better and better every day.

From experts for experts

Made by experts for experts

Thunder is the first open Content Management System created by publishers, specifically designed to meet the needs and expectations of professional publishing.

Join the Thunder Coalition!

We believe that publishers do not compete through technology, but through content and brands. That’s why we decided to release Thunder as open-source software and started the Thunder Coalition to join forces by sharing code and innovation power.

Coalition Members develop valuable modules, using them for their own purpose and sharing them with the community under the GNU General Public License. The Coalition discusses feature requests and offers, celebrates new launches, and is a platform for programmers and executives in the publishing industry.

The Community is growing

114,900
Downloads from drupal.org
21
Certified Thunder Integrators
≈ 80 mio
Monthly visits on Thunder websites
700
Sites report using Thunder
110k
Active users in the Drupal community
9
Drupal 9 ready

Stay tuned to learn about news from the Thunder world and receive invitations to coalition meetings.

Join our Slack team to discuss with the Thunder Community.

Follow the @ThunderCoreTeam on Twitter to get the latest news.

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Big players rely on Drupal

Drupal is an open-source content management software which is used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day. The Drupal community is one of the largest open source communities in the world.

I want Thunder!

How to proceed

Want to join the Thunder Coalition? Or need more information?

We can help you best if you contact us directly. The Thunder Core Team will gladly answer your questions and help you setting Thunder up.

Need help for your relaunch?

That’s where our Certified Thunder Integrators (CTIs) come into play: They have gained knowledge and practical experience in managing and implementing successful Thunder projects.