Tech
Remove Date from Google Search Results in WordPress
We faced the problem that Google displayed the initial publish date of all our pages and blog posts for our website in front of the Google search results:
Generate Images From HTML With AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service which means you do not need to take care of provisioning your hardware, updating the software and upgrading CPU ressources because Amazon does all that for you – without you even noticing that. Therefore it is an awesome use-case for “on-off” workloads. In this blog post we will walk through the different steps that are necessary to run the wkhtmltoimage tool on AWS Lambda to generate images from HTML.
WordPress Cache Busting – or what to do if my design changes do not appear?
Cache is in the Way
One of the many reasons for this behaviour may be the browser’s caching mechanisms. Basically it makes a lot of sense for the browser to not reload all the Stylesheets and JavaScript files each and every time that a user visits your page because the frequency with that these files change in general is very low. That’s why a lot of websites instruct the browser to cache static files like CSS and JavaScript for e.g. 1 year. Therewith lots of bandwidth and downloading power on the browser side and requests on the server side is saved and the website can be rendered dramatically faster.
A good in-depth explanation of various browser caching mechanisms can also be found here.
How to Correctly Evaluate Magento Extensions?
Each of these steps is meant to be executed sequentially and the extension should not be used if one of the steps cannot be finished successfully.
How To Integrate Recolize With Google Tag Manager?
- System independent: no matter if Magento 1, Magento 2, Drupal, TYPO3, WordPress, PrestaShop, Shopify or custom website. Visit also our integrations page for more information.
- Content independent: no matter if products, blog articles, CMS pages or news.
- Display everywhere: display as many widgets as you want to on every page you can think of. Easily configurable in the Recolize Tool.
For some systems we have standard plugins. But Recolize is also extremely easy integrable with Google Tag Manager.
Of course you can use this integration guide also for a direct integration into your website or into other tag managers.
How to Build an Alexa Skill for your Online Shop with Recolize in 15 Minutes?
We will create a so-called Custom Alexa Skill that will be able to simply answer the question “Alexa, open Recolize and ask what can you recommend to me today?” or “Alexa, open Recolize and ask what is the recommendation for today?“.
Therefore we need the Skill definition and additionally a AWS Lambda function that will trigger our Recolize recommendation API. The beauty of AWS Lambda is that you do not need to provision any servers but the so-called serverless framework will only be active if someone asks Alexa to trigger your skill. For more information on AWS Lambda functions see the official documentation.
We use the official Ask CLI commands to easily deploy both the skill itself as well as the Lambda function that will call the Recolize API.
HALLHUBER wins 2. Place at the Shop Usability Award
Directly after the relaunch HALLHUBER participated in the german Shop Usability Award and won the 2nd place. We are very proud to be part of this award-winning new shop and we’ve implemented a completely individual design for the online shop based on their amazing new concept. In the screenshots above and blow you can see the Recolize integration on the home and on a product page.