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!
Hi Doug C.,
The method presented above can help you create a Recent Posts widget that you can add to your sidebar.
That doesn’t even answer my question. I might not have asked it in the right way. Let me try this….
Is there a way to get the code that the widget produces so I can then delete the widget and paste that code into my own hand-designed widget?
Thank god there’s people like you around to explain things simply. This is exactly what I wanted thanks a lot
I’m assuming you don’t know then?
Found a much easier (and workable) method for getting your recent posts. Just log into Feedburner and go to Publicize > BuzzBoost. Adjust the settings to your liking and then ‘Save’. Then just simply go to Layout > Page Elements, click ‘Add a Gadget’ in your sidebar, choose ‘HTML/JavaScript’, and then copy/paste the code from Feedburner. You now have a feed to your recent posts, which will update every time you write a new one.
This is so simple but works wonderfully! I’ve been looking for a reliable Recent Posts widget. Thank you!
Thank you. Super easy. I installed as a side bar widget, then hacked the code so that it will appear after every blog post (like I see on WordPress).
Muchas gracias
Many Thanks
thanks. really helpful.
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xoxo
it was useful. thank you.
worked for me. Thank you