1. Recent Posts Widget
This widget, no doubt is the most important of all, as it shows all your recent posts of your blog.
If you usually write long articles to your blog and you like to show fewer of them on the home page. In that case your past posts hide away. Then this widget helps you there, as the reader can see your previous posts through this widget. Thus "Recent Post" widget plays an important role in increasing the interest of the readers.
To Install this widget you must first install RSS feeds (What is RSS feed?) to your blog.
Setting up an RSS feed on your blog makes it easy for your readers to not just read your blog through there favorite RSS reader but also know when you publish new content.
I prefer feedburner.com for RSS feeds.
-------Click here to learn how to add RSS Feeds to your blog-----------
After installing RSS feed
Click to see installation: [+/-]
1. Go to 'Layout" of your blog.
If you have installed a third-party theme to your blog, then your layout may be divided into proper sections, and it is possible that you may find "Recent Post" widget already installed.
If it is there already then you just have to click "edit" link on the gadget. Then ignore next two steps & jump to step #4.
2. Choose the section where you want to show "Recent Post" widget and then click "Add a Gadget" link.
3. From the pop up window that opens, scroll down in the middle and click "Feeds".
Another window will pop-up.
4. In the "Feed URL" text box, copy/paste this link:
http://www.YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
....replacing "YOUR-BLOG-NAME" with your actual blog's address. If you own a domain then remove " .blogspot" too.
5. Give any "Title" you want to this widget, like "Recent Posts".
6. Choose Number of Posts to show from the drop-down box. (You can select max. 5 posts to show).
7. "Item date" & "Item sources" are optional. You can select them to show Date of the post with author's name.
8. Click Save.
After few moments, it'll show you the list of recent posts of your blog on the same pop-up screen. If it doesn't then re-check the Feed URL you inserted for errors.
If your blog is newly created and you haven't posted anything yet, then this can be the second reason to not showing any post.
If you are using "Expandable Post Summaries" in your site, and your home page shows minimum 5 posts, then I recommend not to use this "Recent Post" widget, there will be no use of this widget as it'll be waste of space on your home page.
2. Popular Post Widgets
Unlike the Recent Post widget, this widget shows your most popular posts in terms of:
I. Number of Comments.
II. Number of Hits/visits.
I. Popular Posts widget on the basis of "Number of Comments"
If you install this widget, then the posts (max. 5) with the most number of comments by readers will be shown by this widget.
To Install this [+/-]
1. Go to 'Layout" of your blog.
2. Choose the section where you want to show "Popular Post" widget and then Click "Add a Gadget" link.
3. From the pop up window that opens, scroll down in the middle and click "HTML/JavaScript".
Another window will pop-up.
4. Give any title, like "Popular Post" or “Most Commented Posts".
5. In the content Area, Copy/Paste this code below:
<script type="text/javascript">
function pipeCallback(obj) {
document.write('<ol style="text-transform: capitalize;">');
var i;
for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i )
{
var href = "'" obj.value.items[i].link "'";
var item = "<li>" "<a href=" href ">" obj.value.items[i].title "</a> </li>";
document.write(item);
}
document.write('</ol>');
}
</script>
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback&_id=1cf38ae68efbe859c4ba1ee239cec099&url=http%3A%2F%2FYOUR-BLOG-ADDRESS.blogspot.com&num=10" type="text/javascript"></script>
...........replace YOUR-BLOG-ADDRESS with your blog's actual address. If you own a domain then remove " .blogspot" too.
6. Click Save and Preview.
7. If it looks good, Click "Save".
II. Popular Posts widget on the basis of "Number of Hits/visits"
This widget will also show all popular posts but on the basis of most number of hits on that topics.(PAGERANK.com)
To install: [+/-]
You first have to visit PostRank.com
1. Then Insert address of your blog/site in the text box on top of the page
2. Click Analyze.
If you are submitting your site to postrank first time, then it'll tell you that "We haven't seen your site before".
Now you leave your email address there, so that they can tell you as soon as they index your site's feed.
It usually takes a day to their email to arrive in your inbox.
3. Click the link given in the email to see your site's feed indexed by postrank.
4. Now after checking your feed, Come back here and click this link:
http://www.postrank.com/publishers/customize
Follow the steps given in that page, customize and create your "Top Post" widget.
You can use "Quick Install" (step 3 given on that page.) or copy the code given at bottom of that page and follow these steps to manually install the widget:
1. Go to 'Layout" of your blog.
2. Choose the section where you want to show "Popular Post" widget and then Click "Add a Gadget" link.
3. From the pop up window that opens, scroll down in the middle and click "HTML/JavaScript".
Another window will pop-up.
4. Give any title, like "Top Ranked Topic" or “Most Visited".
5. In the content Area, Paste the code you received from postrank.com feeds.
6. Click Save and then Preview your blog.
7. If everything went good, Click "Save".
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