UPDATE: If you’re looking for a more customizable Recent Posts Widget, try this Recent Posts Widget for Blogger (v2). It will allow you to change the number of posts, the number of characters of the post summary (excerpt), and show the post dates. You will also have the option to display post titles only (without the post excerpts).
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
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://YourAwesomeBlogHere.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
or
http://www.YourAwesomeBlogHere.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
(for self-hosted blogs)B. Click Continue.
C. Change the Title to “Recent Posts” or “Recent Entries” or whatever you prefer to call it. You can also choose to show the item dates and author.
5. SAVE CHANGES. That’s it!
Brilliant! Works perfectly and it does not require template tweaking. Thanks a lot!
good work…good post
i will use it for my mp3songs blog
Nice one ,i have added to my footer section .
looks good for the blogs like me and only 5 posts are sufficient.
Check my footer to find this gadget look
In IE, the link colors on the gadget are blue! All my other links follow my CSS code except the gadget!
Please help
The post title will not change color. I’ve tried a tag and it changes all of the text EXCEPT the post title.
Any ideas??
Thanks, it works very fine!
tanx for this info!!
I set up a feed from another blog page to show recent posts. Did it months ago. But when I went to edit it today, it simply wouldn’t do anything when I clicked Save. So I decided to try and create a new recent posts feed. Same thing. Wouldn’t save when I clicked Save. So I tried it using a different browser. Then a different computer. No dice. It works fine till I click Save then just sits there. No error message. It just never saves it. I’ve tried going for coffee for half an hour and when I come back the window is still sitting there. I just can’t figure it out!
Hmm.. that’s weird..
How about the other gadgets, could you try editing one and see if you can save it. If the same thing happens, then there must be something in your template or in one of your gadgets that’s causing the problem.
Yeah it is weird! I’ve been creating a few new gadgets as I’m doing a makeover, and the only one that won’t save is the stupid feed! What’s that about???
If you’re fetching feeds from other Blogger blogs, you can try this other method: Recent Posts Widget v2. This one uses the Html/Script gadget instead of the Feed gadget.
I had already use it.. but how can I customize the widget so that 10 recent post will show on the sidebar? anybody knows how to tweak about it?
If you’re looking for a more customizable Recent Posts Widget, try this Recent Posts Widget for Blogger (v2).
Thanks for helping. It worked perfectly well.