Thanks 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.

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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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This widget will display the recent comments on Blogger blogs (free-hosted or self-hosted).

Steps:

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Add a Page Element > HTML/JavaScript

2. Copy and paste the code below:

<script style=text/javascript src=http://www.freewebs.com/filer/blogger/rc.js ></script><script style=text/javascript >var a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var o_rc=100;</script><script src=http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments ></script><div align="center"><a href="http://www.madtomatoe.com/">↑</a> <a href="http://www.madtomatoe.com/recent-comments-widget-for-blogger/" target="_blank" title="Recent Comments Widget">Want this widget?</a><br/><br/></div>

3. Put your own blog address as indicated in color blue below:

…src=”http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default…

4. Add a title. Save.

Note:

This widget is set to display 5 recent comments. If you want to change that number, just look for the number 5 in the code and replace it with the number of comments you want to be displayed. I recommend setting it between 4 and 8.

… a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var…

That’s it!