Recent Comments Widget For Private Blogger Blogs

recent-comments-widget.gifThanks 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.

See screenshot on the left. Continue reading →

Recent Posts Widget for Blogger

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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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How to remove or hide Blogger Navbar

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The navbar (navigation bar) is the horizontal bar located at the top of your page. If you think it doesn’t match your blog’s design, or if you need that extra space for your banner — you can remove it to suit your needs.

Here’s how:

1. Go to your Dashboard > Layout

2. under Template tab, click Edit HTML to edit template

3. Just add the piece of code below somewhere between the <head> and </head> tags of your blog’s template… Continue reading →