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Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

So, you want to send a motherfucking XMLHttpRequest (XHR, or commonly and falsly known as AJAX.) Too bad, just ran out of motherfucking XMLHttpRequests; but I still have one regular. XHR is not magic. It does not autofuckinmagically send things the way you want them do be sent. It does not do the thinking for you. It just sends an Http Request.

You get a hold on such a prime beast like this:

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	# Description: This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases
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	# Sections:
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	*
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	*
	* This function is using the filter simple_fields_get_selected_connector_for_post that is called when
	* simple fields determines what connector it should use for each post.
	* It passes the connector slug and the post object and you should return the slug of the conector that you want to use.

	<?php
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	* Modify/change the default allowed tags for bbPress.
	*
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	function ja_filter_bbpress_allowed_tags() {
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	echo "<p>And my slug is: " . $post->post_name . "</p>";
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	/**
	* WordPress WP_QUERY-wrapper to simplify getting and working with posts
	*
	* Does something with posts, using a callback
	* Setups global post variable before running callback
	* And restores it afterwards
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