13 Style Latest Popular Post Widgets For Blogger With Thumbnails

What type of blogging platform you are using doesn’t matter. I think that you obviously want to make your blog more beautiful to your readers. By customizing your Blogger blog, you can make it more user-friendly and eye-catching. If you customize your blog, then it will look like different and unique from others. That’s why today I will provide some best popular post widgets for the blogger with thumbnails.

There are many different ways to customize your blogger popular post widget. An eye-catching popular post widget will impress your readers. This will also increase the chance to get more clicks in your blog. Which will decrease the bounce rate of your blog and boost Alexa rank? Adding and customizing popular post is very easy. Just follow my instruction.

How To Add Popular Post Widgets For Blogger?

First of all, I will show you how to add the default popular post widget to your blogger blog and then I will show you the way to customize it.

1. Sign into your blogger account and go to the “Layout” section.
2. Go to the sidebar section and click on the “Add a Gadget” link.
3. A popup window will appear. Choose “Popular Posts” gadget from the list. Click on the plus button to add it to your blog.

4. Now it’s time to configure the widget. From this configuration section, you will be asked to choose the most viewed posts of your blog. How many post you want to show with or without page thumbnail and snippet. Different popular post design requires different configuration so leave it as default for now. I will show what configuration needs for every widget later. Add the popular post widget by clicking on the “Save” button.

After clicking on the save button, you will see the default popular post widget is added to your blogger blog. If you are using custom blogger templates then you will get a popular post widget design based on your template. If you like it, then you may keep it otherwise you can customize the popular post widget by picking one of the listed design provided in the below list.

Popular Post Widgets For Blogger:

Multi Colored Widget Style 12

This multi-colored recent post widget will attract visitors dramatically. They will notice all of your recent posts 100 times better than any other widget. You can show 5 recent posts through this widget. Each post will contain published date and read more link. Title and small snippet will be shown with a pretty image thumbnail.

Multi colored recent posts widget for blogger

Code:

<style type="text/css">
img.recent-post-thumbnail{float:right;height:50px;width:50px;margin:5px -5px 0px 0px;-webkit-border-radius:50%;-moz-border-radius:50%;border-radius:50%;padding:3px;background: #fff}
ul.recent-posts-wrap {background: #fff;list-style-type: none; margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px; padding: 0px;font:12px 'Ubuntu Condensed', sans-serif;}
ul.recent-posts-wrap li:nth-child(1n+0) {background: #FCD092; width: 94%}
ul.recent-posts-wrap li:nth-child(2n+0) {background: #FFE0B4; width: 94%}
ul.recent-posts-wrap li:nth-child(3n+0) {background: #FFF59E; width: 94%;}
ul.recent-posts-wrap li:nth-child(4n+0) {background: #E1EFA0; width: 94%;}
ul.recent-posts-wrap li:nth-child(5n+0) {background: #B1DAEF; width: 94%;}
ul.recent-posts-wrap li {padding:5px 10px;list-style-type: none; margin: 0 0 -5px; color: #777;}
.recent-posts-wrap a { text-decoration:none; }
.recent-posts-wrap a:hover { color: #222;}
.post-date {color:#e0c0c6; font-size: 11px; }
.recent-post-title a {font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;color: #444;}
.recent-post-title {padding: 6px 0px;}
.recent-posts-details a{ color: #222;}
.recent-posts-details {padding: 5px 0px 5px; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showrpwiththumbs(t){document.write('<ul class="recent-posts-wrap">');for(var e=0;e<posts_number;e++){var r,n=t.feed.entry[e],i=n.title.$t;if(e==t.feed.entry.length)break;for(var o=0;o<n.link.length;o++){if("replies"==n.link[o].rel&&"text/html"==n.link[o].type)var l=n.link[o].title,m=n.link[o].href;if("alternate"==n.link[o].rel){r=n.link[o].href;break}}var u;try{u=n.media$thumbnail.url}catch(h){s=n.content.$t,a=s.indexOf("<img"),b=s.indexOf('src="',a),c=s.indexOf('"',b+5),d=s.substr(b+5,c-b-5),u=-1!=a&&-1!=b&&-1!=c&&""!=d?d:"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C3Mo0iKKiSw/VGdK808U7rI/AAAAAAAAAmI/W7Ae_dsEVAE/s1600/no-thumb.png"}var p=n.published.$t,f=p.substring(0,4),g=p.substring(5,7),v=p.substring(8,10),w=new Array;if(w[1]="Jan",w[2]="Feb",w[3]="Mar",w[4]="Apr",w[5]="May",w[6]="Jun",w[7]="Jul",w[8]="Aug",w[9]="Sep",w[10]="Oct",w[11]="Nov",w[12]="Dec",document.write('<li class="recent-posts-list">'),1==showpostswiththumbs&&document.write('<a href="'+r+'"><img class="recent-post-thumbnail" src="'+u+'"/></a>'),document.write('<div class="recent-post-title"><a href="'+r+'" target ="_top">'+i+"</a></div>"),"content"in n)var A=n.content.$t;else if("summary"in n)var A=n.summary.$t;else var A="";var k=/<\S[^>]*>/g;if(A=A.replace(k,""),1==post_summary)if(A.length<summary_chars)document.write(A);else{A=A.substring(0,summary_chars);var y=A.lastIndexOf(" ");A=A.substring(0,y),document.write(A+"...")}var _="",$=0;document.write('<br><div class="recent-posts-details">'),1==posts_date&&(_=_+w[parseInt(g,10)]+" "+v+" "+f,$=1),1==insidereadmorelink&&(1==$&&(_+=" | "),_=_+'<a href="'+r+'" class="url" target ="_top">Read more</a>',$=1),1==showcomments&&(1==$&&(_+=" <br> "),"1 Comments"==l&&(l="1 Comment"),"0 Comments"==l&&(l="No Comments"),l='<a href="'+m+'" target ="_top">'+l+"</a>",_+=l,$=1),document.write(_),document.write("</div>"),document.write("</li>")}document.write("</ul>")}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var posts_number = 5;
var showpostswiththumbs = true;
var insidereadmorelink = true;
var showcomments = false;
var posts_date = true;
var post_summary = true;
var summary_chars = 70;
</script>
<script src="/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrpwiththumbs"></script>
<noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu+Condensed' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />

Configuration:
You don’t have to configure this widget. It will work automatically.

Simple Recent Posts Widget Style 13

This is a simple widget. This widget comes with the counter. That means your most recent post will be ranked number 4 in this widget. It will show the post title and a small snippet right below the title. The user will be able to see the post published date and read more link too. No thumbnail is available in this widget.

Code:

<div class="recentpostarea">
<style type="text/css">
.recentpostarea {list-style-type: none;counter-reset: countposts;}
.recentpostarea a {text-decoration: none; color: #49A8D1;}
.recentpostarea a:hover {color: #000;}
.recentpostarea li:before {background: #69B7E2;float: left;counter-increment: countposts;content: counter(countposts,decimal);z-index: 2;position:relative;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;color: #fff; padding: 0px 10px; margin: 15px 5px 0px -6px; border-radius: 100%;}
li.r-p-title { padding: 5px 0px;}
.r-p-title { font-family: "Avant Garde",Avantgarde,"Century Gothic",CenturyGothic,AppleGothic,sans-serif;}
.r-p-title a {text-decoration: none;color: #444;font-weight: bold;font-size: 13px; padding: 2px;}
.recent-post-date {padding: 5px 2px 5px 30px; font-size: 11px; color: #999; margin-bottom: 5px;}
.r-p-summ { border-left: 1px solid #69B7E2; color: #777; padding: 0px 5px 0px 20px; margin-left: 11px; font-family: Garamond,Baskerville,"Baskerville Old Face","Hoefler Text","Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 15px;}
</style>
<script type = "text/JavaScript">
function showrecentposts(json) {for (var i = 0; i < posts_number; i++) { var entry = json.feed.entry[i];var posttitle = entry.title.$t;var posturl;if (i == json.feed.entry.length) break; for (var k = 0; k < entry.link.length; k++) {if (entry.link[k].rel == 'alternate') {posturl = entry.link[k].href;break;}} posttitle = posttitle.link(posturl);var readmorelink = "... read more";readmorelink = readmorelink.link(posturl); var postdate = entry.published.$t;var showyear = postdate.substring(0,4);var showmonth = postdate.substring(5,7);var showday = postdate.substring(8,10);var monthnames = new Array(); monthnames[1] = "Jan";monthnames[2] = "Feb";monthnames[3] = "Mar";monthnames[4] = "Apr";monthnames[5] = "May";monthnames[6] = "Jun";monthnames[7] = "Jul";monthnames[8] = "Aug";monthnames[9] = "Sep";monthnames[10] = "Oct";monthnames[11] = "Nov";monthnames[12] = "Dec"; if ("content" in entry) {var postcontent = entry.content.$t;}else if ("summary" in entry) { var postcontent = entry.summary.$t;} else var postcontent = ""; var re = /<\S[^>]*>/g; postcontent = postcontent.replace(re, ""); document.write('<li class="r-p-title">');document.write(posttitle);document.write('</li><div class="r-p-summ">');if (post_summary == true) {if (postcontent.length < summary_chars) {document.write(postcontent);} else { postcontent = postcontent.substring(0, summary_chars);var quoteEnd = postcontent.lastIndexOf(" ");postcontent = postcontent.substring(0,quoteEnd);document.write(postcontent + ' ' + readmorelink);}} document.write('</div>'); if (posts_date == true) document.write('<div class="recent-post-date">' + monthnames[parseInt(showmonth,10)] + ' ' + showday + ' ' + showyear + '</div>'); }}
 </script>
 <script>
 var posts_number = 9;
 var posts_date = true;
 var post_summary = true;
 var summary_chars = 80;
 </script>
 <script src="/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=showrecentposts"></script>
 <noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
</div>

Configuration:
No major configuration is needed.

How to Add CSS For Popular Post Widget?

Have you choose any style from the above list? I guess yes. So now the question is how to add this CSS code into the blogger template. This procedure is very easy. Just follow these steps:

Note: Before editing, you should know how to backup blogger template and restore it?

1. Go to the “Template” section and click on the “Edit HTML” button on your blogger blog.

2. Now find the code “<b:skin>.” Expand it if it is not already expanded. Now go to the end of the CSS section and find “]]></b:skin>”

3. Paste your chosen CSS code right above the “]]></b:skin>”.

4. Click on the “Save Template” button. If everything is ok, then you are done.

Add CSS For Blogger Popular Post Widgets

5. Now visit your blog to see if the widget is working properly or not.

These were my favorite popular post widgets for blogger. All of these widgets are tested, and I found these working properly. But if you are having trouble to implement your chosen widget then let me know by leaving a comment. I will get back to you very soon and obviously don’t forget to share.