Simple Recent Posts Widget For Blogger/Blogspot

he main advantage on this Recent Posts widget is that it will show not only post titles but also post excerpts or snippets and it's easy to customize/ apply different style on it. To style it into your own design, you just have to modify the CSS style - you can change the link or background color, the size and color of text/links. 

What you can do with this widget:

• display post titles only
• change the number of posts
• change the number of characters of the post snippet/excerpt
• show the post dates

  

See the screenshot below:

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="rpdr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">

<a href="http://www.trickytricks4u.com/2013/09/he-main-advantage-on-this-recent-posts.html" target="_blank" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://trickytricks4u.com" title="Recent Posts Widget">Tricky Tricks 4 U</a></div>

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<style type="text/css">

#hlrpsa a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bWZgom-j55RS5ndT6ZhwMrBU3Iw3KohJjou2e68O7cQmj1ZiAmmjC6FJ8_uFI85ZuG8vRToNfn7j-bXjzs6WqhzKyd1_O0Q_RpzSUyzIYrQApZlaQIPvh1y4IhtoVbOhSxcdZ2uoAE7o/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 style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;" id="rpdr"><a href="http://www.trickytricks4u.com/2013/09/simple-recent-posts-widget-for.html" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget" target="_blank">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://www.trickytricks4u.com" title="Recent Posts Widget">Trickytricks4u</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/AVvXsEh-bWZgom-j55RS5ndT6ZhwMrBU3Iw3KohJjou2e68O7cQmj1ZiAmmjC6FJ8_uFI85ZuG8vRToNfn7j-bXjzs6WqhzKyd1_O0Q_RpzSUyzIYrQApZlaQIPvh1y4IhtoVbOhSxcdZ2uoAE7o/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 like in this example:

 http://www.your-site.com/feeds/posts/default....

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

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