Learn how to use the Solr Web Admin
Solr provides you with a really slick web interface you can use to look at the raw data living in your indexes. It gives you access to current memory levels, index sizes (both file size and how many...
View ArticleLet’s Build a simple country index
In an application there are many times we need to use an index to make our application perform as expected. This blog post will show you how to set up an index on the Sitecore side as well as the Solr...
View ArticleSolr Sitecore Config – What does this all mean?
By the time you finish reading this blog post you should have a good understanding of the key points in the Solr configuration file. I always look at things like a big puzzle, and when you have put...
View ArticleBoost your search results with document level boosting
Document level boosting is just as important as field level boosting, and they have their own purposes. Field level allows you to boost directly on a field value, targeting the content field or a...
View ArticleFuzzy What Search?
Fuzzy search is important. Not all your visitors are perfect spellers but they still want the results they were looking for. Take for example the word Brazil. It can be spelled with a ‘z’ (Brazil) and...
View ArticleOptimize with Solr – SUGCON 2015
I have the privilege to speak at SUGCON 2015. My talk on Optimizing with Solr includes a lot of technical information and I felt it would be helpful to the community if I wrote a blog series touching...
View ArticleFilter Your Renderings…Today!
Don’t you want to save your content authors time? Don’t you want them to love you? This will certainly help! This small snippet will get you on the god / goddess path to stardome. Let’s get that...
View ArticleAtomic Design – Engineering Challenge
The header and footer are possibly the most important renderings on your site. Every visitor notices them. Keep reading through this post and see how we built ours using atomic design and are able to...
View ArticleAtomic Design, Collette Style!
Do your content authors have the ability of modifying data and styling on your site at granular level? Do they have the ability to have an AB test done on the smallest piece of design like a button on...
View ArticleAuto Delete Old GitHub Branches Using Jenkins
GitHub is an extremely useful tool if you have multiple developers constantly needing to make changes to the code base. However, the repository can quickly become cluttered with branches especially if...
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