128 Recent Posts Widget for Blogger
July 30, 2008 / Filed under:

Many Bloggers use a Feed widget to display links to recent blog posts. However, when using this widget, we are limited to display only 5 items or less.

So I have created a widget which allows you to display more than 5 recent posts. You can customize the title and choose how many posts you would like to display, then install directly to your blog at the click of a button!

To install your own recent comments widget in your Blogger layout, simply follow these steps:


  1. Choose a title for your widget, or leave this blank if you prefer not to display a title.

  2. Add your blog's URL in the box provided. Do NOT add the HTTP:// part, or a closing forward slash as these are already generated by the script.

    For example, you can enter yourblog.blogspot.com or www.yourblog.com in the blog URL text box.

    However, http://yourblog.blogspot.com or www.yourblog.com/ will not work!

  3. Choose how many post titles you would like to display. This is set to 10 by default, though I have successfully experimented with up to 100!

  4. Click on the "Customize" button to save your changes, then the "Add to Blog" button will be highlighted. You can then click this button to add your customized recent posts widget to your Blogger blog.
Here is the widget installer to add your recent posts widget to your blog:



How this works

This widget references a JavaScript which parses your blog's feed and displays the titles of the most recent posts in a list.

Unfortunately the script I am using causes problems when trying to display a summary of latest posts, so at present I am unable to offer this feature.

Let me know what you think!

I hope you enjoy using this widget! Please let me know your thoughts on this by leaving your comments below.

Author: Amanda Kennedy

Amanda is a professional blogger and web designer living in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

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128 comments:

  1. Amanda:

    I'd want a unique label feed as I described here: http://crazyseawolf.blogspot.com/2008/07/feeds-para-marcadores-do-blogger.html

    May I change my blog feed url in code?

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  2. This is really cool. I got this too...

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  3. I just installed this on my blog (translated as 'recente berichten', but it seems that it's unable to render 'ü', which happens to occur in the title of a recent post. Is there anything I can do 'bout this?

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  4. JavaScript slows down your page. Significantly.
    You can only have 2 JavaScripts running at the same time when rendering your page, and if they are both busy (fox example, fetching data from a feed), your page rendering simply stops.
    The effect is even worse in Internet Explorer.
    I even use a feed widget to render 'Top popular posts' widget on my page - this is significantly faster.

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  5. OK, I switched to Bloggers own feed-thing for now.

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  7. Hello amanda..thx for this post..i'm just wondering..how we can put this java script into YUI tabview content?..and also for recent comments..i'm still curios until now an get stuck with those things..hope you can help me..thanks..i'm already read your post about "A tabbed navigation widget for your blog (version 1)" and could you give some tutorial how to put those code into YUI tabview content..only for YUI content or maybe you can give me some link to learn about easy YUI tabview. I'm sorry for long comment of your post..and many thanks for your consideration. Best Regards from your fans..;)

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  8. esmeralda Williamson-Noble30 July 2008 21:08

    It all sounds good, If only... I knew what to do it with it or how...
    Esmeralda
    www.anewplot.blogspot.com

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  10. I'd use it if I didn't see this:

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  11. So, that's why my blog is so ... slow. I think JavaScript can slow down page if the script is too much. I missed this part :

    "..You can only have 2 JavaScripts running at the same time when rendering your page, and if they are both busy (fox example, fetching data from a feed), your page rendering simply stops..."

    Thank you ....
    May be I will turn back to use feed.

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  12. great.. but make it a drop down menu since there are no descriptions as yet.. that would be awesome. it could do so much more without taking up more space.

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  14. Amanda, this is a great widget! I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I set the maximum posts at ten to show in my sidebar for now. The listings are bulleted by default (for me, anyway) and I made the lists centered. Thanks again! Vic.

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  15. Well, it deserved to be over the posts column, rather than the sidebar. I also made the title a link to the homepage so that it would refresh and show the list in case it didn't completly load when the site is first visited.

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  16. well, the widget is not good for some type of languages like Portuguese :(

    how to fix the errors ?

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  18. Most of your widgets doesn't work for mem including this one. Blogger.com says "sectionId must not be blank". What can I do?

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  19. Hi Amanda, thanks for the widget. But can you customize it a bit so that it can also display the date of the post? It would be of great help. Thanks :)

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  20. Hey Maybe I missed I am looking through your enteries because I want to use a similar widget for my blog. I post about about different things and I want to make the content easy to find. Such as Reviews on phones under one section,movie reviews under another section,Topics of my own interest under another section that if someone is looking for a certain review on phones they go to phones and check for a posting. Thanks For any suggestions.

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  21. It doesn't work with cyrilic symbols. :(

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  22. has this been taken down? I can't locate it

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  24. hello, your widget works nice, but I just don't know how to modify the way the recent posts appear, for example , not to be underlined! Thanks

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  25. Mr. H

    Hi Amanda. Aside from what Game said, is there a way to remove bullets. Thanks

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  26. ok, this work fine but i have proplem with font, can not read
    greece fonts

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  27. I can't add widget to www.mymanga.info

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    Please help me

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  29. Hello Amanda,

    This works fine in my blog but I'm wondering if this widget would cause problem with regards to google duplicate content issue.

    I hope you could reply to this question.
    I'm still trying to figure out why I don't rank well in google SERP..

    Thanks Amanda

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    Make Homemade Fragrances

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  30. does it support asian language?
    when i use chinese on topic
    the widget display incorrectly
    all chinese became question mark "?????????"

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  31. you are a genius!!! wow!!!

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  33. Thank you for information about the recent post widget, good luck!

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  35. would be great if you internationalized this

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  36. This works but not loads everytime i open the page.I mean to say that sometimes recent posts show up and sometimes dont.Any bugs or just mine prob?

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  37. i just installed it on my blog..thanks dude

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  38. Same with me. Somtimes the title(Recent Posts) is there with none of the post listed.
    I have a fluid 3 column Blog and originally the code came to my left column - so I moved the line of code to the right side column . . . ?

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  39. Dear Amanda
    Have been using your widget with succes on my blog. But since I've moved my feed to google the updating has stopped. Can you fix this?
    Thanks, J

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  40. I will apply this widget in my indonesian blog

    http://bayibaik.blogspot.com

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  41. Hey Amanda! Thanks for the post, you have no idea how much i needed something like this. However it doesn't do what i want fully. I put 1000 and it still goes to max of 25. That's what i get from feedburner, too. How can i get the entire list of my posts as a list? Also, I use foreign characters in my blog and those characters don't show correctly.

    any suggestions might you have?

    again, thanks!!!!

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  42. finally found a widget that works like a champ. thanks!!!

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  45. http://bloggertinker.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-put-recent-postsrecent-articles.html

    This is the simplest and easiest way to add a Recent Posts/Recent Articles widget in your blog. Unlike other blogs, the tutorial here uses the standard Blogger Feed widget to make the Recent Posts/Recent Articles widget. And I am 100% sure your Recent Posts/Recent Articles widget will work.

    Nice Tutorial though... Faster than my tutorial.hehe

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  47. Worked perfectly on new blog until I got past 25 posts but it now only lists latest 25 titles.

    I thought this might be because I was using the Blogger default of 25 posts per page, but I changed that to 50 & widget still sticks at 25.

    Is there any way round that?

    Thanks!

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  48. If this doesn't work, I think I have a solution for you. Tell me if there is any problems with it. http://marketopinions.blogspot.com/2009/01/adding-recent-posts-widget.html

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  49. It is showing upto 25 posts.

    It is not Showing 100.

    http://satish-games.blogspot.com

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  50. Thank You, Amanda, it works.

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  51. hye, just added this new widget to my blog. Cool! So far so good!

    Thanks :-)

    vie~avola~vie
    www.vivajkon.blogspot.com

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  52. Thanks!...No hablo mucho ingles....☺ pero me sirvio el widget...lo tengo en el blog de pruebas...Saludos....☺

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  53. does it support hindi language?
    when i use hindi on topic
    the widget display incorrectly
    all hindi became question mark "?????????"

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  55. It's a great information and thanks to you

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  56. thanks for this need more stuff for new blog

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  57. great tip. i am using it on my blog. thanks a million!

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  58. hi,
    I loved your tool but it seems not to work any longer. Do you have an issue with the hosting of the js file? If so, it would be great if you can send it to me by email so that I can host it myself to continue use it. My email: trashmpiat[at]gmail[dot]com
    Thanks a lot.

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  59. Me too...I am having a problem with this script as well..it isn't allowing any Recent Posts to be viewed?

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  60. Very cool tip that i ever get.

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  62. Check this Recent Post with Thumbnail Widget http://bryandel.net/feed

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  63. I have find a quick and easy to install and customize Recent Post Widget with thumbnails. You can install it in minute with hassle-free complicated manual code installation.

    You may look at this link for more information : http://www.engadgeteer.com/2009/07/recent-posts-widget-with-thumbnails.html

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  64. nice post thanks buddy

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  65. Thanks, i installed it on my blog!

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  66. hello i got serious prob pls help me urgently when i tried to use ur recent post widget my whole template style got changed and its really looking bad pls help me out i want to restore my template pls visit http://watsyourblog.blogspot.com and check by urself plss my blog is messesd up now pls help me how to correct this?

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  67. this is not working in my blog

    it is not showning any thing on my blog

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  69. Hi , it's not work
    can u fix it ?
    thanks !

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  70. Check out this related posts widget by GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH and its one click installation :

    http://www.vnoma.com/2009/12/related-posts-widget-by-google-custom.html

    Hope you like it...

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  71. Cool widget! I got it for my blog and it's working great! http://all-media-blog.blogspot.com

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  72. Great, so easy to follow - thank you

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  73. Worked perfectly on new blog until I got past 25 posts but it now only lists latest 25 titles.

    My blog has around 28 posts currently and it would still keep increasing soon. But i am not abel to see my 28 posts in the recent posts widget. It defaults to 25 posts only.

    Please look at my blog (note:- recent posts heading is renamed as "Blog Contents" in my blog)

    http://veerabrahmendraswami-biography.blogspot.com/

    Is there any way around that?

    Thanks!

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  74. hey check out my vertical scrolling recent post widget out here http://jdstechtips.blogspot.com/2010/04/scrolling-recent-post-widget-for.html

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  77. thanks i works gr8.....!!!!!!

    check it in my page
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