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!
I love this thing, but is there a way to change the text color? My blog’s background is black and the links get lost in it…
Try this Recent Post Widget 2.
If the text color still appears in black, you need to edit your blog’s template and edit/change the color of the text on your inner sidebar.
done
Awesome, because I was looking for a simple text widget that didn’t mess up my layout. (Some widgets make the bulleted list double-spaced, which I don’t like.)
Is there any way to display more than 5 items though???
There’s no way to display more than 5 items using this widget. This widget uses Blogger’s Feed Widget to fetch recent entries, and the Feed Widget is capable to display only 5 items.
If you want a Recent Posts widget that can display more than 5 items, go to this post: Recent Posts Widget 2.
The post will show you two options. The first code will display recent posts with excerpts, while the second code will display titles only.
Please let me know if this answers your question.
Cheers!
Thanks! Very helpful!
Cheers!
Wow, its very short, simple and easy to setup. But, it would be better if it shows more than 5 recent entries.
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
Thanks, it works very fine!
tanx for this info!!