What you can do with this widget:
- display post titles only
- change the number of posts
- change the number of characters of the post snippet/excerpt
- show the post dates
See the screenshot below:
How to add Recent Posts Widget to Blogger
1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard > go to "Layout" and click the "Add a Gadget" link:
2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript from the list...
3. Select & copy the code below the chosen widget and paste it into the HTML/JavaScript content box:
Recent Posts Widget with Snippets
<div id="hlrpsa">
<script type="text/javascript">
function showrecentposts(t){for(var e=0;e<numposts;e++){var n,r=t.feed.entry[e],i=r.title.$t;if(e==t.feed.entry.length)break;for(var s=0;s<r.link.length;s++)if("alternate"==r.link[s].rel){n=r.link[s].href;break}i=i.link(n);var a="...",d=r.published.$t,u=d.substring(0,4),o=d.substring(5,7),c=d.substring(8,10),l=new Array;if(l[1]="Jan",l[2]="Feb",l[3]="Mar",l[4]="Apr",l[5]="May",l[6]="Jun",l[7]="Jul",l[8]="Aug",l[9]="Sep",l[10]="Oct",l[11]="Nov",l[12]="Dec","content"in r)var m=r.content.$t;else if("summary"in r)var m=r.summary.$t;else var m="";var w=/<\S[^>]*>/g;if(m=m.replace(w,""),document.write('<div class="rctitle">'),standardstyling&&document.write("<br/>"),document.write(i),1==showpostdate&&document.write(" - "+l[parseInt(o,10)]+" "+c+" "+u),document.write('</div><div class="rcsumm">'),1==showpostsummary)if(standardstyling&&document.write(""),m.length<numchars)standardstyling&&document.write("<i>"),document.write(m),standardstyling&&document.write("</i>");else{standardstyling&&document.write(""),m=m.substring(0,numchars);var g=m.lastIndexOf(" ");m=m.substring(0,g),document.write(m+a),standardstyling&&document.write("")}document.write("</div>"),standardstyling&&document.write("")}standardstyling||document.write('<div class="bbwidgetfooter">'),standardstyling&&document.write(""),document.write(""),standardstyling||document.write("")}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var numposts = 5;var showpostdate = true;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;
</script>
<script src="http://blog-address.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts">
</script></div><a style="font-size: 9px; color: #CECECE; float: right; margin-top: 10px;" href="http://blogger.chipchuck.com/2012/04/recent-posts-widget-for-bloggerblogspot.html" rel="nofollow" >Recent Posts Widget</a>
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<style type="text/css">
.rctitle a{color:#000000;text-transform:capitalize;font-size:13px;}#hlrpsa {color: #999999; font-size: 12px;}.rcsumm {border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc; padding-bottom:10px;margin-top:5px;}
</style>
Recent Posts Widget Showing Post Titles Only
<div id="hlrpsb">
<script type="text/javascript">
function showrecentposts(t){for(var e=0;e<numposts;e++){var n,r=t.feed.entry[e],i=r.title.$t;if(e==t.feed.entry.length)break;for(var d=0;d<r.link.length;d++)if("alternate"==r.link[d].rel){n=r.link[d].href;break}i=i.link(n);var s=r.published.$t,a=s.substring(0,4),o=s.substring(5,7),l=s.substring(8,10),u=new Array;u[1]="Jan",u[2]="Feb",u[3]="Mar",u[4]="Apr",u[5]="May",u[6]="Jun",u[7]="Jul",u[8]="Aug",u[9]="Sep",u[10]="Oct",u[11]="Nov",u[12]="Dec",standardstyling||document.write(""),document.write('<div class="rctitles2">'),standardstyling&&document.write(""),document.write(i),standardstyling&&document.write(""),1==showpostdate&&document.write(" - "+l+" "+u[parseInt(o,10)]+" "+a),standardstyling||document.write("</div>"),document.write("</div>"),standardstyling&&document.write("")}standardstyling||document.write('<div class="bbwidgetfooter">'),standardstyling&&document.write(""),document.write(""),standardstyling||document.write("/div")}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">var numposts = 10;var showpostdate = false;var standardstyling = true;</script>
<script src="http://blog-address.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"></script></div><a style="font-size: 9px; color: #CECECE; float: right; margin-top: 10px;" href="http://blogger.chipchuck.com/2012/04/recent-posts-widget-for-bloggerblogspot.html" rel="nofollow" >Recent Posts Widget</a>
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<style type=text/css>
#hlrpsb a {color: #000000;font-size:13px;text-transform:capitalize;}.rctitles2 {padding-bottom:10px;margin-bottom:10px;border-bottom: 1px dotted #cccccc;}
</style>
How to customize the recent posts widget:
- To set how many posts to display, change the 5 value for the recent posts widget with snippets and the 10 for the recent posts widget with post titles only.
- If you want to display the post dates, change "false" to "true".
- The recent posts widget with summary will display 100 characters; if you want more or less characters, change the "100" value.
- To change the color of the links, modify the values in blue and for the font size, the values violet.
- To change the color of the posts snippets modify the values in green and the values in orange for the font size.
- Replace the http://blog-address.blogspot.com text with your URL.
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