Make recent posts widget for blogger blog

creating recent posts widget in your blogger blog will allow your visitors to quickly find your latest posts. This widget on your blog’s sidebar is really a helpful tool to navigate through your latest posts without visiting your blog’s homepage. We can make this widget using Feedburner account or from directly blogger dashboard also. Both of them will use your blog RSS feed to grab your latest posts. Let’s know how to set up a recent posts widget for your blog.

see at the below screenshot

The first one is done by using Feedburner and other one from blogger’s dashboard.

Creating recent Posts Widget Using FeedBurner :

1. Log in to your Feedburner account and click on your feed.
2. From your blog’s feed menu, go to Publicize.
3. Click on BuzzBoost and enable the service.

4. Get the HTML code from there.
5. Remember that you can choose to show post titles or post titles with summery.
6. Go to your blogger blog’s Layout >> Page Elements >> Add a Gadget >> HTML/Java Script and paste the code there.
7. Click on Save to save the widget.
8. You are done.

Making Recent Posts Widget With Blogger Gadgets :

1. Log in to your blogger blog‘s dashboard.
2. Navigate to Layout >> Page Elements >> Add a Gadget >> Feed

3.Enter your blog feed URL in the given box.

4. Give a proper title to your recent posts widget by filling up the Title field.
5. Choose the no of recent posts that you want to show on your blog.
6. If you want to display date next to the post or if you are having different authors on your blog, choose the corresponding check boxes next to them.
7. Save your widget and you are done.

That’s it. Using the above two simple tricks will show recent posts on your blogger blog. You can also show all posts including sticky posts on blogger using these widgets. Now displaying all your latest or recent posts on your blogspot blog’s homepage is quick and easy. In this way, you can also add recent comments widget on blogger blogs.