Last month, I have talked out the "recent comments" widget for Google Blogger. As easy as it is to implement, it still requires some modifications to the blogger template.
There is actually a much simpler way to display the "recent comments" and "recent posts" in your Google Blogger sidebar by using your own RSS feed. If you do not know much about RSS, you would be able to find out more information here and here. Basically, RSS is a mechanism to distribute content in your blog that you would like others to use or read.
First, you have to find out what your Google Blog RSS feed is. If you are using a .blogspot domain, your site feed is *.blogspot.com/atom.xml, where * is your blog name. The comments feed of a blogspot blog is *blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
Then, go to the Blogger template and add the Page Element "Feed". Insert your site feed as the feed address and change the Page Element title to "Recent Posts". After that, insert another Page Element for the blog comments. Save the template and you are done!
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Display Recent Posts, Recent Comments in new Google Blogger
Posted by Andy at 1:59 PM
Labels: blogger, blogger tips
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7 comments:
Great tip Andy! Think I'll be throwing this into my page later.
Great MG, I m glad you like it ... it actually blend in with the blogger site too.
this is awesome Andy...good advice on Blogger tweaking
Hi Andy. Thanks for this tip. I tried it and it works so easily. Great for code illterate people. Thanks for sharing again!
Hi, thanks for the tip!
But, is there a way to change the outlook - make them look like a list as you have, change the length of the comment titles ?
@Liblikaliisu - You can select the number of comments in the comments feed.
If you would like to further customize your recent comments, you could try out the widget I mentioned here.
I longed to display the recent comments of my blogger, thank you so much!!
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