My first two successful gadgets made use of the google.blog function in order to retrieve and parse post and comment feeds for the blog in which they are installed. These gadgets are now available for installation through the Blogger gadget directory and have even been featured on Blogger's official Featured Gadgets blog!
These Recent Posts and Recent Comments are very easy to install: simply follow the links for the gadget you would like to add, and choose how many posts/comments you would like to display:
When you press "Update" you will be presented with an example of how the gadget will appear in your blog, and can then proceed to save your gadget.
Recent posts with thumbnails
Aneesh from Blogger Plugins has created a wonderful "Recent posts with thumbnails" widget which displays the media:thumbnail for each post.This is a wonderful and very user-friendly gadget which even includes details of comments! Install the Recent Posts with Thumbnails gadget by following this link.
Known Bugs
As the API is still rather new, there are a few minor bugs with my gadgets. These are the issues I'm currently aware of, which will be updated with new information once it's available:Need to press "Update" to ensure preferences are configured
This is an issue with all gadgets which should be resolved quite soon.
Some gadgets don't display in Chrome
Several people have emailed me about this, and to be honest I don't know why this is happening. I'm pretty certain the Blogger team are aware of this issue and hope for a fix soon.
Gadgets may "spill over" in customized templates
The width of gadgets is determined by the width of the sidebar, and sometimes ignores any padding/margins applied to the "widget content" section. I've tried many ways to fix this, but so far my only solution would be to apply margins within the gadget, making it narrower (and unsightly) for those who use regular templates.
76 Comments:
@aneesh great widget
@manda.. how to edit the css?
@Denny thanks for the feedback.. :)
Great widgets Amanda. Thanks!
@Amanda, thanks a lot for posting about my gadget and thanks for mentioning my name.. :)
Hope to see more gadgets from you soon..
D'oh! I tried it and for some reason it ended above my header (topads-wrapper), though the layout screen showed it at the end of my link footer link area (lowerbar). Relocating it in the layout screen had no effect. When I tried to edit the gadget the popup was entirely blank. I have a custom template so maybe that's an issue. I'm currently using Feedburner javascript to generate a recent posts list so it's not a biggie.
Hi amanda,
is it possible at all to change the font color? If my background is grey, the fonts cannot be seen
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Dear Amanda,
thanks for your gadgets.
I´have install Recent Comments in two different blogs.
If the background is black color, I cant see the fonts.
Is it possible to make any modifications?
Bravo Amanda,
We all appreceate your contribution to our blogging comfort. I'd like to ask if it is possible for you to add in your Recent comment widget a setting "Show after ?(number) post" as some of us have pre-dated posts and now I suppose they are always on top, so this way they could be excluded from showing.
Thanks again!
PS. I'll reffer to your post in my "Create a website yourself" blog.
Dear Amanda,
thanks for your gadgets.
I´have install Recent Comments in two altered blogs.
If the accomplishments is atramentous color, I deceit see the fonts.
Is it accessible to accomplish any modifications?
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Recent Posts with thumnails is an excellent gadget which needs to be worked on to be bug free:
It works fine with Firefox and Opera but DO NOT work in IE 6 sp3,
why I still have IE 6 : I have it just to test an occasional website on IE.
I always wonder why so many people bother to use buggy and bulky IE browsers anyway.
I hope more and more people move to other browsers.)
For the comments gadget, it doesn't offer anything extra then feedburner.
I'm having trouble with the Top Commentators widget (which I *really* want to use!). I put it in and it works. Then after I navigate away from my blog, when I come back it's gone - only the title remains, no names. Any help would be appreciated.
I have tried installing Recent Posts gadget, and I can't get anything to show up. I use Safari. I was so excited about this gadget! I've tried installing several times and tweaking it and clicking update, but I can't get anything to show up. :-(
thanks for the gadget
@Leta probably because the yahoo pipe used for the widget has run out due to heavy usage..
Create another clone of that pipe and use that in your widget..
I have been using this gadget and it has been fine until today. It simply does not show anything. If I update it, it just is a blank space.I'm using IE8. Any sugestions?
very great widget but yes it is not working in IE
Nice widget, but I can't change the color.
Need help. Thanks!
It's great. Thanks Amanda
It's nice to see people working to improve the Blogger platform with useful widgets.
Great work!
Amanda, I appreciate the recent posts widget so much! However, how can we change the font? I'm rather fond of Georgia but the font on the widget is Arial (or so I think). Any updates that you can do about it?
Hi Amanda,
The new widgets are just amazing. Is it possible to change the font color? It sort of blends in with the surroundings, and isn't very prominent right now.
@Amanda nice post! Too bad the widgets don't work in Chrome yet.
@aneesh Very nice widget! I've been looking for a widget like this for months. I installed it on my website: http://www.poker006.com/. Looks good but I would like to custumize like bligger thunmbnail and change colour to link etc. Please tell me how, you're awesome:D
Very nice! I installed it at http://www.ejly.net/ and will use it on other blogs as well soon. Configuration was a snap. One thought: it would be nifty if the widget pulled in the commentor's image from their profile when available too!
M using it here: http://www.samneangkhmer.com/ the problem is it's not in line; it seems touching the edge of the widget. How can I make this right?
@David Bergeron you can customize the colors by adding it as an HTML/Javascript gadget.. So you can add additional css there to style the widget properly..html widget
OK Amanda, good tips n' i'll try. thx
very thanks, to guide us for this major issue
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Thanks I needed this, will try it out.
Hi Amanda;
Thanks for the info on the blogger gadgets!
But, the gadgets are not working properly and seems there is still a lots of scope for improvement.
This particular gadget, cannot be customized according to the blog template hence my complete two thumbs down for this blogger-gadget.
Regards;
Rachana
MYBlog Link: http://rachanashakyawar.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the psot an Greetings from GERMANY
I hope there is a way for us to modify the fonts and change the color so that it will fit in to our blogs. Looking forward for an update.
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wow...it's work for me...thanks amanda :D
Great widget Amanda. I have in look of that type of widget and it leads me to this site. Thanks.
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Very cool Amanda. Thanks a lot. How can I change the colors? That would be more convenient and It could better fit my blog. Thanks!
Thanks Amanda. I tried to install the widget; the feeds were fine but the thumbnails don't show.
waow.. I've added this gadget... thx u so much...
this is new improvisation created by blogger n u...
hehe...
I've tried it but thumbnails don't show up..
Nice blog and I've added this gadget..thanks
How to change color of font thanks.
Thanks for the info on the blogger gadgets. Have a nice day and greetings from Germany
Hi!
Great gadget. Got a question on the Recent Comment gadget. It comes with english language, e.g. "Dennis wrote...". Is there a way to customize this? My blog is in Dutch so I would love to have the Dutch equivalent of "wrote" in there.
Thanks,
Dennis
Any answers as to why it's not working in IE, I mean I use firefox but others use IE still, dumbfounds me but whatever... it should show and it's not. Fix? Please reply!!!!
Hello
Seems the single quote is displayed '
Could you check this, at least here
http://always-someone-cooler.blogspot.com/
and here
www.pechin.org
Thanks in advances
Hello
^Some problems with this gadget : quote are diosplayed ' and if we click the comment nothing happend
example here
http://www,pechin.org (blog from blogger)
Thanks to fix this
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prac
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Outstanding gadgets Amanda!
Doesn't work after the initial install. The posts I just added don't show up in the list. A pity, it's a cool widget.
Hi,
nice nice, but it only shows 25 last posts. Gimme more! I would like to have all (in my cas 999) posts.
Hello! That's a very cool widget ;)
I got problem with special character...
See, this : ouai on est jamais sure des personnes que l'on a en face sur msn. et puis montrer son "engin" juste pour voir la réaction de l'autre c'est pas top.
should be: ouai on est jamais sure des personnes que l'on a en face sur msn. et puis montrer son "engin" juste pour voir la réaction de l'autre c'est pas top.
Is there anything I could do?
Thanks!
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Hi!
I'm using both feature in my blog but if only there is a way to change the font that would be AWESOME!
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Hi Amanda,
I'm having problems with the Recent Comments gadget. The link doesn't go to the actual comment, just the page. I notice that the links generated by the gadget are different to the ones generated by the old RSS feed method.
The links generated by the gadget look something like:
http://(link).html?showComment=(____)#comment-c(____)
Whereas the ones that work for me, generated by the old method look like:
http://(link).html?showComment=(____)#c(____)
I think the problem is the extra 'comment-'. Is there anything that can be done to resolve the problem, either from your end or from mine?
Many thanks.
It's good to see work done to improve Blogger platform. Thanks for the article.
I'm having problems as the most recent comments are not showing up? Any help appreciated, thanks.
hi, i changed the hyperlink title color and text color by changing the variable value in my template
..Variable name="sidebarTextColor" description="Sidebar Text Color"
type="color" default="#555544" value="#88bb22"..
..Variable name="sidebarLinkColor" description="Sidebar Text Color"
type="color" default="#FF0000" value="#FF0000"..
Hi Amanda,
Though the Recent Comments widget has been working, now it doesn't anymore. I keep getting the following error: An error occured fetching the feed data.
Try it with different settings and in another blog with the same settings it works fine, but in our (private) blog it won't work again.
Any idea??
Thanks,
Angeline
Hi Amanda
This looks like a great gadget, but, unfortunately, I get this when I try to run it (the comments one):
This gadget is configured incorrectly. Webmaster hint: Please ensure that "Friend Connect Settings - Home URL" matches the URL of this site.
I signed up for Friend Connect and updated my URL, but that didn't do anything. Suggestions?
Afer working fine for a week, the gadget stopped to work in all browsers (no changes in script)
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It's not working from few days :(
Only worked for two days, and even then some words were scrambled. Now it is just a title. I guess I'll just have to pull it, but it's a shame because my readers specifically asked for the feature. Any help would be appreciated...
Just stopped working for me in the past few days (was working fine previously)
I tried the recent comments gadget as i've seen it on other people's blogs and thought it was a good idea. But it just doesn't work on my blog and I don't know why.
All I get is the title of the gadget and then a white box where the rest should be. It works fine in the preview on the settings box, but not on the actual page.
I'm sure it's not anything to do with my custom layout as I've switched back to the default layout and the problem still the same.
I'm also sure it's not my browser (firefox) as like I say, I've seen it on other people's blogs and it works for them...
I've also tried the top comments gadget (not made by you I know) and I have the same problem.
I'm really stumped on this, any suggestions?
I'm fairly new at HTML and CSS. This is a great widget, but if I wanted to add it to another web page how could I do so? Is it even possible? I'm trying to add the widget to a page created on MS Publisher 2007. Please let me know if there is a way to add this to an unrelated (non-blog) web page and instructions if available. Thanks in advance.
Recent Comments has gone blank in Mozilla as well.
The only thing missing from this "recent article" gadget is to have a "label" option. I would love to filter the list of my recent posts by label tags.
Are there any existing gadgets that have this option?
Hi Amanda - thanks for the great gadget!
I'm having a problem will quotes (") and apostrophes (') which are displayed as ascii code (& # 3 9 ; without the spaces) in your widget.
Is your widget not encoding to unicode or is this a problem with smart quotes?
hi thanks for the gadget
unfortunately i cannot use the recent comments beause my background template is black so it does not show. is there any way to change the font colour?
I like this comment: "I'm trying to add the widget to a page created on MS Publisher 2007. Please let me know if there is a way to add this to an unrelated (non-blog) web page and instructions if available..." is very good!!!
i really like your site, it's cool..
Thank for gadgets.. it's really helpful informations to be shared..
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is it possible to find someone a script for recent comments to work for non-english post titles? because this widget is only for post titles with english language.We are human too in the rest of the world you know :p
Hi Amanda
I'm using your excellent 'Display new Comments' but have a small problem re; apostrophes which show as '. Can you help please ?
Great article. There's a lot of good information here, though I did want to let you know something - I am running Mac OS X with the circulating beta of Firefox, and the look and feel of your blog is kind of bizarre for me. I can understand the articles, but the navigation doesn't work so good.
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I recently installed Recent Comments widget. I have two issues with it:
1. It displays an apostrophe with the symbols '. This is today's most recent comment: You're so lucky to have such an excellent selection close by.
You can check my blog to see this comment.
2. I selected to display the three most recent comments. If I reply to comments left by readers, my three most recent replies are the comments displayed. I don't want my comments displayed, but only those of my readers.
If these two issues can not be resolved, I am uninstalling the recent comment widget. I like the idea of it very much, but it doesn't work for me as it is now.
Thank you.
Amanda,
thanks a lot for your great effort writing this gadget.
How about following up on the posted comments, though? There are so many open questions concerning features changing the language/text or size and colour of the font. Wouldn't it be possible to automatically align the gadget style with Google's default values for the chosen blog design?
KR
Stefan
PS: Trust me, it doesn't really look good...
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One of the main feature of using third party comment system is Reply option to comments which blogger lack.
I recently saw this tutorial on How to add reply option to blogger comments and thought to share with you
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