The Recent Posts Widget for blogger displays recent post titles and their summaries in your sidebar. You can customize this widget to display the recent posts of any blogger blog that you like. You can customize the number of posts to display, whether or not to display a post summary and even set the size of this summary(in number of characters).
For Further enhancements, you can add your own CSS styling and improve the look and feel of the widget,
How to add the Recent Posts Widget for Blogger?
Before adding the Widget just take a look at the Widget Settings
- Blog URL - This should be the URL of a blogger Blog. If you are installing the Widget on the same blog then you can leave this field blank . This field is useful for those who have multiple blogs.
- Number of Posts – The number of posts to be displayed in the Widget
- Show post date – If you want to show the date on which the post was made, then tick this option
- Show summary– If you want to show an excerpt of the post in the widget then tick this option
- Summary Size – This is basically the excerpt size. Anything more than this would be chopped off.
Now that you know about the settings, just click on the below button to add the recent posts widget to your blog
The Widget will be added to your blog and you will be taken to the Page Elements Page.
You can drag the widget to the appropriate position and save the layout
The coding of the recent posts widget for blogger was developed by Beautiful Beta and Hackospere. A Great Thank You goes to Ramani and Hans for making this awesome widget.
If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to comment here
Nice. I'll try this out.
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thanks for dropping by!
@maiylah
ReplyDeleteyou are welcome..
I do have the do-follow badge ... :)
ReplyDeletejust scroll lower, on the ride sidebar.
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@maiylah ok didn't notice it earlier
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ReplyDeleteDude in the sidebar you have a typo error !!!!!"Stumple(Stumble) OR Digg This Blog" .
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This is a great widget however is there a way to disable the current post? I've put it on my sidebar on the first page.
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Nice tip, i will try for my blog.
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Anurag
Cool! Just what I'm looking for! Thanks!
ReplyDeletecool... i actually have that widget on my blog... but its up tp five posts only... anyway, the top commentators aren't showing up yet...
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Exactly what I was looking for thanks. Sometimes I get the feeling wp has some advantages..
ReplyDeleteThank you for the Widget. Tested - works find. The solution is presented in the following blog post, with reference to this post: http://blogging4good.blogspot.com/2008/09/recent-posts-widget-on-your-blogger.html
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Thanks for this widget. This is what I am looking for. Installing it in my blog right now.
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Thanks soo much, I had been having hard time, but thanks to you, my widget is working. Thnx soo much:)
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ReplyDeleteCheck this Recent Post Widget with Thumbnails http://bryandel.net/feed
ReplyDelete@Bryandel it is a good widget.. but it uses the full sized images and scales them using css.. I am currently busy with some PHP projects.. Will soon design a widget with smaller thumbnail images so that they load fast..
ReplyDelete@Aneesh actually I already made a script that resizes images but I'm worried with my bandwidth.
ReplyDelete@bryandel i didn't mean to say that you should store the images on your server.. Blogger comes with smaller thumbnails you can grab them from the feed..
ReplyDeleteI will try to code it using the new Gadget API and add it to the blogger repository when i finish off my other projects..
If you wanna try just analyse the blogger feeds.. It is more like a Media RSS with thumbnails included..
BTW are you the original author of that script??
@Aneesh I'm not talking about disk space. It's Bandwidth. they're totally different. My thumbnailer script does on-the-fly resizing.
ReplyDeleteI based the script with feedburner for greater compatibility rather that sticking to a specific blog such blogger or wordpress. And yes, I'm aware of media RSS.
I'm using an open source script and tweaked it because a colleague of mine requested for this feature. I'm just sharing this widget to everyone.
I have find a quick and easy to install and customize Recent Post Widget with thumbnails. You can install it in minute with hassle-free complicated manual code installation.
ReplyDeleteYou may look at this link for more information : http://www.engadgeteer.com/2009/07/recent-posts-widget-with-thumbnails.html
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I have 3 side bars, I want to toggle 1st and 3rd sidebar closed and middle sidebar should display full page. How to make it?
ReplyDeleteI also want my blog from blogspot to display on my website in a very little space in one of the sidebars.. Can I do that? if yes how?
shiva
This is cool. thanks!
ReplyDelete@shiva to hide or show elements you will have to use some javascript..
ReplyDeleteand to make a column to use the full width on a page,you have to use CSS
To Aneesh,
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Its works now,thank you and thank you!!
Thanks for this widget, I really love it. Is there anyway that the font and font color can be changed? I have tried working on this all day and can't figure it out, and would really appreciate some help on this.
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@Crystal,
ReplyDeleteactually it uses the same font and color as your sidebar!
but you can surely change colors if you want.you will have to add extra CSS style rules for that particular widget
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ReplyDelete"an error occured fetching the feed data"
ReplyDeletethis msg shown in my "recent posts widget" and "recent comment widget " so how con i repair this problem
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@zinn,
ReplyDeletehave you enabled feeds?
I used this but the unordered list is not functioning well. Can you help me please? TIA
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Aneesh,
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@Bruxo,
ReplyDeleteit will be difficult to hide the current post,but you can remove the last post(the newst post on your blog.) easily.
To do that add the widget, then edit it and change ?orderby=published to ?orderby=published&start-index=2
Thank you very much for your help Aneesh
ReplyDeleteHi, for some reason the posts in my recent posts widget have disappeared. It's just a white box now. Can you help?
ReplyDeleteLooks great! Is there some way to use the same format for specific posts I'd like to highlight? I've currently got them listed as plain links in the sidebar but now they look pretty shabby compared to this!
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An excellent widget. Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteI do notice though that the number of recent posts to display is limited at 25. Can this limitation be overcome in any way?
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Thank you for this widget, I was looking for this for some time.
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