Add A Simple "Recent Comments" / "Recent Posts" Gadget To Your Blog

posted by Rajesh

Thursday, 10 January 2013

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How to Add A Simple "Recent Comments" / "Recent Posts" Gadget To Your Blog

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The recently observed problems with some third party gadgets, previously added by many blog owners to their blogs, leaves these (and other) owners lacking a useful feature in their blogs. For many blog owners, fortunately, this is not an impossible problem to resolve.

Blogger provides us with a native accessory, called a "Blog Feed" gadget, which will provide acceptable "Recent Comments" and "Recent Posts" functionality, for many blog owners.

Look at the sidebar of this blog, for "The Real Blogger Status - Comments", and "The Real Blogger Status - Posts". Those are "Recent Comments" and "Recent Posts" gadgets, based on the Blogger supplied "Feed" gadget - which is not a third party accessory, and is not subject to future third party peccadilloes.

To make your new gadget, start with the URL of the blog feed desired. Then, add a Blogger supplied Feed gadget, using the "Add a gadget" wizard, in the dashboard Layout display.

This is the URL of this blog.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net

This is the URL of the blog comments feed.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/feeds/comments/default

This is the URL of the blog posts feed.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/feeds/posts/default

Setting up a "Blog Feed" gadget is simple enough.

1. Add a "Feed" gadget (Only select the "Feed" gadget, "By Blogger"!!!), using the "Add a gadget" wizard. Avoid any similarly named gadget not "By Blogger".
2. Plug in the Feed URL (see my examples above), and Continue.
3. Review / change the options offered, and Save.
4. Test your new blog accessory - provided by Blogger - with no future hacking activity anticipated.

And, you're done. Wasn't that simple?

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