Monthly Archives: December 2009

Give me convenience

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I used to track WordPress updates, plugin updates and my own manual site changes using git. I wrote a whole post about it. Either fortunately or unfortunately WordPress launched their update framework which is so much easier than what I was doing. I’ve given up on my old technique and moved to using WordPress’ update mechanisms.

Of course what I really want is to be able to white a WordPress plugin that is notified any time an update occurs or a file update completes so that I can automatically track site changes in a SCM, but I don’t think that’s easy right now.

jQuery selector escaping

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jQuery selectors are powerful and simple to use, until you have attribute
values (including ids and classes) that have funny characters. I wrote a plugin
adds a simple function $.escape that will escape any special characters.
For example if I have a string s that contains an id but I’m not sure that
all of the characters are safe I can use $('#'+$.escape(s)) to find the
element with that id. If I want to find all of the links to
http://ianloic.com/ I can do $('a[href='+$.escape('http://ianloic.com/')+']')

The first release is here. I don’t know that there will be any more releases – this is a pretty damn simple plugin.