Entries Tagged 'Widgets' ↓

Thanks to tarun and Dissent, I’ve just learned that the Recent Comments Widget for Blogger doesn’t work with private blogs. While trying to find a work-around with the widget’s script, I came up instead with a way to make a new widget that can display Recent Comments on private blogs. It will display excerpts of the last five comments, with the dates and the names of the commenters.

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Here’s how you can make a Recent Posts widget for your Blogger blog:

1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard
2. go to your blog’s Layout, and click Add a Page Element
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I’ve just installed a Word Counter on this blog. You might find it useful when writing blog post reviews or filling up a form.

To open Word Counter, click the link “word counter” from the top menu.

Add a Google Translate Mini Flags widget to your blog. Powered by Google Translate, this widget lets your visitors view your pages translated in their own native languages with just a click.

Vertical (single column)

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Widgets are rich and interactive media applications that are easy to build, customize and add to a blog or site. Widgets are usually javascript powered or flash apps. Widgets are so popular nowadays. So popular that web advertising companies turned them into advertising delivery systems or simply called ‘advertising widgets’. Widgets may be the next revolution in online advertising. Even Google is now offering rich media advertising via their Google Gadget Ads. But the buzz is currently loud on the newcomer WidgetBucks.

WidgetBucks is a new advertising option for bloggers and site owners. WidgetBucks offers attractive ad widgets that bloggers and web masters can add to their blogs and sites. It was launched last October 2007 by the Seattle-based Mpire. Just two months after its launch, these widgets have already gained popularity among web publishers especially among “pro” bloggers. Like Chitika eMiniMalls, a WidgetBucks widget is an interactive ad unit that flashes through different purchasing options for readers for different products. Thus helping readers to find the best deals online. Continue reading →

This widget will display the recent comments on Blogger blogs (free-hosted or self-hosted).

Steps:

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Add a Page Element > HTML/JavaScript

2. Copy and paste the code below:

<script style=text/javascript src=http://www.freewebs.com/filer/blogger/rc.js ></script><script style=text/javascript >var a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var o_rc=100;</script><script src=http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments ></script><div align="center"><a href="http://www.madtomatoe.com/">↑</a> <a href="http://www.madtomatoe.com/recent-comments-widget-for-blogger/" target="_blank" title="Recent Comments Widget">Want this widget?</a><br/><br/></div>

3. Put your own blog address as indicated in color blue below:

…src=”http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default…

4. Add a title. Save.

Note:

This widget is set to display 5 recent comments. If you want to change that number, just look for the number 5 in the code and replace it with the number of comments you want to be displayed. I recommend setting it between 4 and 8.

… a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var…

That’s it!