[Plugin: climate change glossary] Javascript and configuration errors

After installing the plugin, I found that a javascript error within the climate-change-glossary/js/script.js file was having an affect on other files.

The original file was performing an action on a HTML element of ID #pp_thesaurus_input_term. This only exists on the glossary page, rather than other pages on the site. To avoid this error I surrounded the action in an if statement, for example:

if ($("#pp_thesaurus_input_term").length ) {
	$("#pp_thesaurus_input_term").clearField().autocomplete(pp_thesaurus_suggest_url, {
		minChars:		2,
        matchContains:	true,
        cacheLength:	10,
        max:			15,
        scroll:			false
	}).result(function (event, item) {
		location.href = item[1];
	});
}

Our WordPress deployment might be structured differently from most installed, but this was causing a problem with the glossary AJAX. On our site we have a current folder and then a deployments folder. The current folder points to the latest deployment, making it very quick to switch between versions with very little downtime. The configuration file is linked to a shared folder. Unfortunately this does cause a problem when loading the wp-config.php within the plugin.

Our folder structure is something like:

current – link to most recent deployment

releases – 201201031518/
– 2011122031518/

shared – uploads/
– wp-config.php

To resolve the problem we ensured the ABSPATH global variable was set before loading the wp-config.php, this ensured the the wp-settings.php and other core files could be loaded.

This change was added to the pp-thesaurus-autocomplete.php file and consisted of the following code:

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
	define('ABSPATH', $sPath . '/');

require_once($sPath.'/wp-config.php');

Would it be possible to make changes to the plugin to help resolve the aforementioned issues?

Thank-you for creating such a useful plugin.