Popular Posts & Blog's Stats widgets for Blogger

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It has been almost 2 months since Blogger introduced the “Stats” feature. Now they have gone a step further by introducing 2 Gadgets related to the “Stats”. Blogger has now got a “Popular Posts” Gadget and a “Blog’s Stats” Gadget.(These are currently available only on Blogger in Draft).

Popular Posts Gadget

Blogger has always lacked such a gadget. There used to be some Yahoo Pipe based widgets, which list out the most commented posts. But these were pretty slow and inefficient. Now Blogger has got this Official Popular Posts Gadget.As the name indicates, the Gadget displays a list of popular posts on your blog.  Here is a Screen Shot of the Gadget Options

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Blog’s Stats Gadget

The Blog’s Stats Gadget displays your Blog’s stats in one of the different graphical(or textual) formats. The Gadget Options will give you a better idea

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How to add these Gadgets to your blog?

These Gadgets are not available in your regular Dashboard. So login to Blogger in Draft at http://draft.blogger.com . Now Go to Design > Page Elements and Click on the “Add a Gadget Link” and you will see the 2 new Gadgets

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What do you think of the ne Gadgets?

Comments

  1. Avocational SingerSeptember 1, 2010 at 11:41 PM

    When I first added the "popular posts" gadget, it cut off the left side of the titles of the posts. I think this was because I was still using one of the old design templates. I switched to one of the new ones using the "new" template designer and the problem went away. I'd been meaning to switch anyway, so having this happen was a good occasion to update my look.

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  2. YanuarSeptember 1, 2010 at 11:45 PM

    nice widgets, i'm using right now, thanks.
    is it possible to customize css,tags or snippet's length so it will look better?

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  3. UnknownSeptember 2, 2010 at 12:52 AM

    thanks for these

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  4. kc bobSeptember 2, 2010 at 3:35 AM

    Thanks for the heads up! Wish they had a gadget that would display a list of posts that used one label. This way you could label a post "favorite" and the gadget would show all posts with that label.

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  5. shajjadSeptember 2, 2010 at 3:51 AM

    I get these two widget yesterday when i am working in my blogger. yeh that's are good and Like it.
    thanks for sharing

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  6. wwww,slbloggs.comSeptember 2, 2010 at 7:00 AM

    nice widget,thanks.....

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  7. Kiran HegdeSeptember 2, 2010 at 8:40 AM

    I am unable to see after clicking Add a Gadget link :(

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  8. MartikSeptember 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM

    There are not available in my dashboard!

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  9. meanderdzeSeptember 2, 2010 at 3:19 PM

    I'm using popular posts. will be nice if they'll add some interesting widgeta :)

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  10. Sancho MuzaxSeptember 2, 2010 at 4:47 PM

    Popular Posts Gadget: how can I reduce from 10 to 5?
    Blog’s Stats Gadget: Why total pageviews? I would like to show the latest 30 days only.

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2010 at 7:01 PM

    ^ same question here.

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  12. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 2:21 PM

    Looks good

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  13. Kat A. LessinSeptember 4, 2010 at 4:35 AM

    The widget is not listed to "add to the blog" feature...

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  14. UnknownSeptember 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    @All those who couldn't find the Gadget - As i have mentioned in the post, the gadget is not available in your regular dashboard. You will have to login at http://draft.blogger.com (Blogger in Draft Dashboard) to get it

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  15. KelvinkcmSeptember 5, 2010 at 4:37 AM

    thank you aneesh. i got it now....

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  16. LukaSeptember 5, 2010 at 6:07 PM

    Nice widgets, hanks.

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  17. Andrew SchankSeptember 6, 2010 at 8:45 AM

    Like the popular posts gadget!

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  18. CorezzloSeptember 6, 2010 at 8:08 PM

    thank yew :)

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  19. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2010 at 9:22 PM

    is it possible to customize this widget? for example how many posts it shows?

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  20. Technology NewsSeptember 7, 2010 at 11:29 PM

    This is a really great widget. Google is adding some great features to keep the blogging platform relevant.

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  21. Sarah, The Healthy Home EconomistSeptember 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM

    Love the idea .. mine is cutting off one or two spaces on the left margin. If this can get fixed, I will definitely use this.

    Also, the recent posts widget is still not working completely in internet explorer. It works on Chrome and Firefox just fine. In IE, the widget works fine on the blogger homepage but not an individual blog page. Will you be fixing this in bloggerindraft soon? Thank you!

    Sarah
    http://thehealthyhomeeconomist.blogspot.com

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  22. UnknownSeptember 7, 2010 at 11:47 PM

    @Sarah - sorry about the Recent Posts Widget. I have made a newer and more efficient version of the Recent Posts Gadget(and some other Gadgets as well :)).I haven't updated the current Gadget to the new one, as it may stop working on many blogs. I will update once i find a way out. You will get the new Gadgets pretty soon :)

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  23. AnnetteSeptember 8, 2010 at 5:32 AM

    Thank you so much! This better reflects my top posts. I've been using Postrank's widget.

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  24. TEKNİK REHBERSeptember 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM

    i need codes could not see the gadget in the basic gadgets....

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  25. AdminSeptember 9, 2010 at 10:05 PM

    thxs. .

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  26. David BergeronSeptember 11, 2010 at 7:20 AM

    Hey Aneesh, how can we custumize the popular posts widget like displaying 5 posts instead of 10 and changing character count for title and snipet?

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  27. சரவணன்.DSeptember 14, 2010 at 12:12 AM

    thanks

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  28. ardiSeptember 15, 2010 at 9:06 AM

    wow its a powerfull gadget..

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  29. ManiniyotSeptember 15, 2010 at 9:33 AM

    This one is pretty awesome. Blogger is now innovating hard to satisfy their users.

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  30. ShrinathSeptember 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    Hi aneesh,is it possible to add loading background image on post body,before the content loads fully?

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  31. Lirik LaguSeptember 16, 2010 at 1:23 AM

    Thanks for sharing, great features from blogger.

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  32. stevenglobalSeptember 16, 2010 at 9:01 PM

    Just wonder how to disabled the thumbnail. it doesn't want to save the settings.

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  33. UnknownSeptember 18, 2010 at 3:11 AM

    after adding this one, all other things gone up!
    Only showing most read articles...how can i show visitors count, and all other titles together?

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  34. monazkiiSeptember 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM

    thanks

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  35. Abdallah AnwarSeptember 19, 2010 at 2:06 PM

    I think they've removed the popular posts widget again.I guess it was short lived.

    -A.B.
    http://www.insidethatad.com/

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  36. Schroder-EUASeptember 20, 2010 at 3:21 AM

    How about for classic blogger?

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  37. MeruSeptember 22, 2010 at 8:16 AM

    hi aneesh, this widget seems doesn't want to follow instruction..i already added this widget WITHOUT SNIPPET AND THUMBNAIL, but it is not working..

    still, it appears with snippet and thumbnail..

    omg, really mad

    >:(

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  38. tianSeptember 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM

    very very useful gadget,, visior will see our powerfull page, ^^

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  39. ByRonFernSeptember 24, 2010 at 4:53 AM

    Popular how can I reduce from 10 to 5?
    does anybody know?

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  40. ByRonFernSeptember 24, 2010 at 4:55 AM

    Popular Posts how can I reduce from 10 to 5?
    does anybody know?

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  41. 9y0 BloggerSeptember 25, 2010 at 2:42 AM

    thanks buddy

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  42. Umar FarukSeptember 28, 2010 at 6:09 PM

    thanks

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  43. dystopianOctober 5, 2010 at 6:13 AM

    hi. thanks for this. i think the popular posts widget uses visitor stats rather than comments to determine popularity, but i'm more interested in highlighting the posts that people are having discussions about. do you know how to get it to look at comments rather than visits? thanks :)

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  44. Blog Gado GadoOctober 8, 2010 at 3:03 PM

    wow...nice widget, thanks for sharing

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  45. ersOctober 10, 2010 at 9:33 PM

    nice work. thanks

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  46. Ashish sharmaOctober 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM

    thanking to you

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  47. சரவணன்.DOctober 17, 2010 at 11:47 PM

    Thank u 4 ur information.....

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  48. CHROMEWAVES RADIOOctober 22, 2010 at 4:17 AM

    do you people really not know how to reduce popular posts from 10 to 5? seriously?

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  49. LaloOctober 28, 2010 at 8:07 PM

    It would be nice to extend this great gadget with more configuration options like in the Recent Posts gadget.

    First of all, the "External Blogger URL" field.

    Thanks in advance,

    Lalo

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  50. Sean FearNovember 7, 2010 at 3:48 AM

    Using it and I think this is great however I'd really like to be able to use this as a horizontal list with just the blog post title and a picture.

    Is there a widget that is similar but lets you specify which posts you want displayed?

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  51. عرب فنDecember 5, 2010 at 8:46 PM

    thank you

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  52. SusmitaDecember 10, 2010 at 1:46 AM

    PROBLEM: I added the stats widget ...but it is not shown on the blog until I am logged in my blogger account. my readers can't see it either ... blog url is : http://little-lustrous-lives.blogspot.com/

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  53. Hanjayas.Blogspot.comFebruary 2, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    i like this, but i dont want add a post name within. just thubnail. i more like your recent post. but its recent..

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  54. ZeusFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:23 PM

    I have using this widget with great success. Unfortunately, for the last week period, is not showing correctly the top 10 posts according to blogger stats. It is not being updated with the correct top 10 posts. Anyone has this problem or know what to do?

    Thank you in advance.

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  55. TJILLMarch 6, 2011 at 12:10 AM

    this widget is awesome, but some of the thumbnails started to vanishing, and new thumbnails for new posts aren't generated- it's the same after I reinstalled the gadget, and the random posts widget on this site also had the same problem when I tried it- anybody know what's the problem?

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  56. UnknownMarch 9, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    Hi! I installed this widget but a few text on the left hand side overlaps the template. How can this problems be fixed?

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  57. PunkMay 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    Hi Aneesh,

    Can you please provide the script of this widget? I want to add this widget in the tabbed navigational sidebar and I need the code for that. So, please help me regarding this.

    Thanks

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  58. YudhMay 19, 2011 at 8:47 PM

    I have using this widget with great success...

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  59. MrPTMay 23, 2011 at 8:13 PM

    It seems for the past few weeks it is not working as it should, does not show the most popular from last 30 and 7 days, and the most popular of all time is not being updated! any thoughts on how to fix it?

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  60. desharMay 24, 2011 at 6:21 AM

    can you make POPULAR POSTS one based on your RECENT POSTS version. I don't like the blogger default, especially if you have photo blog. Your's Recent Posts works better with photos, you only put 0 length on title & thumbnail only to get Recent Photos to line up horizontally etc. But I also need the Popular Photos one...

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  61. AnonymousJuly 3, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    the popular post widget Not working on my blog anymore since my popular posts cannot be fetched beacuse it has adult content and i have to put a warning page. Hope blogger will work on that. Thanks..

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  62. M®TadaaJuly 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM

    My popular post was broken. It wasn't display. Why ?

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  63. David ArdittiJuly 20, 2011 at 5:13 AM

    I would really like the Popular Posts widget to allow more than the 10 most popular posts to be shown. Say, 20, or ideally, any arbitrary specified number.

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  64. LagubestbestAugust 14, 2011 at 4:38 AM

    I need POPULAR POSTS BY LABELS widget..

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  65. The Coast RadioAugust 24, 2011 at 7:35 PM

    Popular Post title comes up untitled. Need your help.

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  66. The TechieAugust 26, 2011 at 12:07 AM

    Nice share.. :D

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  67. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2011 at 10:53 PM

    Thanks,,,,

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  68. rabindra lamsalOctober 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM

    Thanks for this post. I am using it now.

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  69. Random BloggerNovember 13, 2011 at 11:39 AM

    Can someone tell me how the most popular posts are determined? Is it by page views or comments or what?

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  70. UnknownNovember 20, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    hi, popular post widget is not updating, can't seem to find any solutions at the moment. Perhaps you can help? appreciate it very much.

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  71. Lizbeth Esc.December 30, 2011 at 7:24 AM

    Thank you very much . All the info was really useful... :D

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  72. Dede MulyadiJanuary 11, 2012 at 7:15 PM

    thanks you :)

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  73. UnknownFebruary 1, 2012 at 3:41 PM

    very nice

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