Recent/Latest Posts Widget For Blogger/Blogspot

You surely have seen on many blogs and websites a Recent Posts Widget in the sidebar that shows the recent or newest or latest posts of the certain blog or website. This widget shows the best posts title for SEO, date of post and an image of the post and even a snippet of the post. So today we are going to learn how to make this widget for your blog with some very easy steps. So let's start now.

How to add Recent Posts Widget to Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, then go to Layout and click on Add a Gadget link
Step 2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript.
Step 3. Select & Copy the code from one of the options below and paste it into the new HTML/JavaScript:

Option 1: Recent posts widget with snippets

<div id="hlrpsa">
<script src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-snippets.js">
</script>
<script>
var numposts = 5;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;
</script>
<script src="http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=showrecentposts">
</script></div>
<div id="hlrpsa">
<script src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-snippets.js">
</script>
<script>
var numposts = 1;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;
</script>
<script src="http://www.blogtipsuk.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=showrecentposts">
</script></div>
<div id="rpdr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">
<a href="http://www.blogtipsuk.com/2013/12/recent-latest-posts-widget-for-blogger-blogspot.html" target="_blank" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget" alt="Recent Posts Widget for blogger">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://www.tonyisright.blogspot.com/" title="Recent Posts Widget"
alt="Blogger and SEO Tips and tricks">Blogger SEO Tips</a></div><noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
<style type="text/css">
#hlrpsa a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbUYUQYkhtRYdb_BJnV1uJwLR3AiDGUVYW4jNEMicmPywwltfkGjHSZHwLGrpy8SN3AabXqaUpclkpmDoC6uaFRBNHHyxHhIK8HTt9QeA-vNb0Eq5XjauTNDn5xEZvL7c5aq8Ucs-SVSlj/s1600/blogger.png) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;}
#rpdr, #rpdr a {color:#808080;}
#hlrpsa { color: #999999; font-size: 11px; border-bottom:1px #cccccc dotted; margin-top:-10px; padding-bottom:10px;}
.hlrps a {font-weight:bold; }
.hlrpssumm {}
</style>

Option 2: Recent Posts Widget Showing Post Titles Only

<div id="hlrpsb">
<script style="text/javascript" src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-titles-only.js"></script>
<script style="text/javascript">var numposts = 10;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = false;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;</script>
<script src="http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"></script></div>
<div id="hlrpsb">
<script style="text/javascript" src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-titles-only.js"></script>
<script style="text/javascript">var numposts = 1;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = false;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;</script>
<script src="http://www.blogtipsuk.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"></script></div>
<div id="rpdr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">
<a href="http://www.blogtipsuk.com/2013/12/recent-latest-posts-widget-for-blogger-blogspot.html" target="_blank" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget" alt="Recent Posts Widget for blogger">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://www.tonyisright.blogspot.com/" title="Recent Posts Widget"
alt="Blogger and SEO Tips and tricks">Blogger SEO Tips</a></div><noscript>Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.</noscript>
<style type=text/css>
#hlrpsb a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url( https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbUYUQYkhtRYdb_BJnV1uJwLR3AiDGUVYW4jNEMicmPywwltfkGjHSZHwLGrpy8SN3AabXqaUpclkpmDoC6uaFRBNHHyxHhIK8HTt9QeA-vNb0Eq5XjauTNDn5xEZvL7c5aq8Ucs-SVSlj/s1600/blogger.png ) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;}
#rpdr, #rpdr a {color:#808080;}
.bbrecpost2 {
padding-top:6px;
padding-bottom:6px;
border-bottom: 1px #cccccc dotted; }
</style>

Step 4.

Change 5 (option 1) and 10 (option 2) with the number of posts you want to display.
Change false to true if you want the posts dates to appear
Change 100 (option 1) if you want more characters to be displayed.
To change the color and font size of the links, modify the values in blue (links) and violet (font-size)
To change the style of posts summary, modify the values in green (color) and orange (font size)
Replace the your-blog text with the name of your blog or if you have a custom domain change all the bolded line with your address.

Step 5. Save your widget. And that's it! Enjoy!

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How To Add Facebook Like and Share Button in Every Posts

Adding a facebook like and facebook share button in each and every posts of blogger blogspot has become a common task of the professional blogger. In this post i am going to tell you “How to add facebook like and share button in all posts of blogger blog?”. If you add the like and share button below the blogger posts then the visitor of your blog will able to know the popularity of your post and will be more effective to read your posts and stay your site for long time. So your bounce rate will be decreased and your traffic will be increased. You may think that the coding knowledge such like HTML, CSS, JavaScript will be needed to add facebook like and facebook share button with the blogger posts. If you are more serious about that then the declaration for you that you

do not need the coding knowledge to add the buttons to your blogger blog. Just follow the tricks provided below and win to add facebook like and share button into every posts of your blogger blog. :)

Let's See The Simple Trick

Step 1 Html Tag

• Go to Blogger.com
• Choose your Blog where you want to add Facebook Like & Share Button
• Click on Template on Left Side Menu
• Now Click Edit Html
• You will see the HTML tags in the beginning of the template coding Like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html b:version='2' class='v2' expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>

• Now add the below code at the end of the <html> tag. As shown in the image

 xmlns:fb='http://ogp.me/ns/fb#'

Step 02: Editing Body Tag

Now find out the <body> tag [Click anywhere in the code box then press Ctrl+F]. Now type <body in the box and press “Enter” then you will get the <body> tag
Now add the below code just under the <body> tag. As shown in the picture.

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>

Now find out the <div class='post-footer'> tag [Click anywhere in the code box then press Ctrl+F. A Now write the code <div class='post-footer'> in the box and press “Enter” then you will get the <div class='post-footer'> tag ]

Now add the below code just after <div class='post-footer'> As shown in the picture

<div class="fb-like" expr:data-href='data:post.canonicalUrl' data-send="true" data-width="450" data-show-faces="true"></div>

Now Click on “Save template”

You have done if you need more help please let me know i will help you.

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