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 item dates and the names of the sources/authors.
See screenshot on the left.
Instructions
Here’s how you can make a Recent Comments widget for your private Blogger blog:
1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard
2. go to your blog’s Layout, and click Add a Page Element
3. add a Feed (click “add to blog” under the page element Feed)
4. Configure Feed:
A. Enter your blog’s feed URL in the box. Use the URL below..
Just replace the text indicated in blue with your own blog address.http://YourAwesomeBlog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss
or
http://www.YourAwesomeBlog.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss
(for self-hosted blogs)B. Click Continue.
C. Change the Title to “Recent Comments” or whatever you prefer to call it. To show the item dates and names of the authors, check the appropriate boxes.
5. SAVE CHANGES. That’s it!
As this widget is a Blogger’s feed widget, titles of posts that were commented on can’t be displayed, unlike the Recent Comments widget. But still, it is a good alternative.
Update: If you get INVALID FEED URL, just try repeating step #4 until the site’s comments feed is finally fetched. Sometimes the Blogger feed widget has a hard time fetching a feed url.
it’s not working!
Thanks so much for this! I had tried a few other ways and it never worked properly,but this was great!
Oh, I wanted to add that I had to repeat step #4 three times before my url was accepted. Perhaps that’s the problem with other posters who are having a problem.
It doesn’t work on private blogs, at least not with my blog. Maybe it worked back when it was made up but I have tried for hours re-entering and repeating the process. It gets the wrong feed and just for to see how it turns out I tried to post that- wouldn’t have worked anyway. Can’t understand why Blogger is so anti “recent comments” function. (Something to do with ads or something I read.) It’s annoying.
Hey mine is a private blog, too. and it doesn`t work on my blog, either..
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I tried manytimes and still show invalid feed..have you tested on private blog and work?
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I tried so many times but its not working