With my latest gig sending me back into the .NET world, I have been busy migrating quite a few of my tools and experience to play nice with ASP.NET sites. One of my favorite open-source tools that is gaining popularity in .NET is jQuery. For several years now, I have been using jQuery heavily to provide rich interaction on websites. When faced with the basic UpdatePanel in ASP.NET, I was presented with a challenge. I wanted a solution that would automatically call jQuery so that new content was properly parsed and updated.

I have a friend that wants to update a banner on his Wordpress blog homepage without changing the template files. I tell him I'd be glad to help him out and start working on a plugin that provides a custom administration page to allow for this. As I am a firm believer in the power of a lazy coder to get things done faster and better, my first thought was: "Why don't I just see if I can hijack the 'Select Image From Gallery' page to do this?"