Tonino's articles
Sending Emails in PHP with PHPMailer
By Narayan Prusty, Tonino Jankov,
Tonino and Narayan show how to use PHPMailer - a dead simple email sending library for PHP. Send email from your local machine or an SMTP relay easily!
The Best Web Hosting Providers For Your Needs
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov examines the most prominent players in the web hosting industry, wading through their plans, infrastructure, and reputation, to give you recommendations for the best hosting provider for your needs.
An Introduction to Cloudflare Workers
By Tonino Jankov,
Learn about serverless computing, Cloudflare's edge computing, and its Cloudflare Workers FaaS implementation, and why it's a powerful tool for developers.
Introduction to Vue.js and the Quasar Framework
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino looks at the many exciting features of Vue.js, and introduces the Quasar framework, a kind of Bootstrap for Vue, which provides UI elements and more.
JavaScript Web Workers: A Beginner’s Guide
By Tonino Jankov,
Learn how web workers help with web app performance, and get started by building a basic JavaScript web worker.
How to Build a WordPress Theme from Scratch: Final Steps
By Tonino Jankov,
In this article, Tonino completes his foray into building a WordPress theme from scratch, focusing on refining templates, adding meta information, post thumbnails, sidebars, user-friendly controls and more.
How to Build a WordPress Theme from Scratch: the Basics
By Tonino Jankov,
This second part on creating a WordPress theme from scratch shows how to create a very basic WordPress theme, add in Bootstrap styles and scripts, separate header and footer output into their respective partials, and leverage the crucial functions.php file.
How to Build a WordPress Theme from Scratch: First Steps
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino introduces WordPress themes, showing how they work, how they’re structured, the PHP architecture behind them, and other relevant information, as the first step in learning how to build a WordPress theme from scratch.
An Introductory Guide to Managing WordPress with WP-CLI
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov introduces WP-CLI, a command-line interface for managing a WordPress site (as opposed to working through the default admin interface), covering its main commands and also introducing some of its third-party packages.
Using the WordPress Settings API to Build a Custom Admin Page
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov introduces the WordPress Settings API, and showing how to create a WordPress administration page to demonstrate the use of this API. In this article, he shows how to wrap this functionality into a plugin, though it can also be a part of a WordPress theme.