Popular Post Widget into Automated Post Slider

Convert your popular post widget into automated post slider with flexible and stylish design using some Blogger tricks. 

Step 1:

First Add Default Popular Post Widget in your Blogger Layout.

Go to Blogger ---> Layout ---> Click Add a Gadget ---> then Add "Popular Post Widget".(If you already added this widget on your Blogger then skip this step)

Step 2:

Add a "HTML/JavaScript" widget in your Blogger layout and insert below code inside "HTML/JavaScript" widget.

 

 

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
#PopularPosts1{
height:263px;
}
.item-content {
height:263px;
position:relative;
width:560px;
}
.slider {
height:263px;
margin-left:25px;
width:560px;
overflow:hidden;
margin-top:5px;
padding:0px 0px;
height:263px;
}
.item-snippet {
background:transparent url(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z105/dantearaujo/darkbg.png) repeat scroll 0 0;
color:#FFFFFF;
padding:5px 5px 10px 5px;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
text-align:left;
width:560px;
font-size:9px;
font-style:italic;
}
.item-title{
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size:10px;
font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;
margin-bottom:5px;
}
.item-title a:link,.item-title a:visited{
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
border:none !important;
padding:0 !important;
}
.item-thumbnail img{
padding:0 !important;
}
.item-thumbnail a{
padding:0 !important;
}
.crosscol .widget-content {position:relative;}
.slider ul, .slider li,
#slider2 ul, #slider2 li{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
}
#slider2{margin-top:1em;}
.slider li, #slider2 li{
width:560px;
height:263px;
overflow:hidden;
}
.item-thumbnail img{width:560px;height:263px}
#prevBtn, #nextBtn,
#slider1next, #slider1prev{
display:block;
width:30px;
height:77px;
position:absolute;
left:-30px;
text-indent:-9999px;
top:71px;
z-index:1000;
}
#nextBtn, #slider1next{
left:582px !important;
}
#prevBtn, #nextBtn, #slider1next, #slider1prev {
display:block;
height:77px;
left:0;
position:absolute;
top:100px;
width:30px;
z-index:1000;
}
#prevBtn a, #nextBtn a,
#slider1next a, #slider1prev a{
display:block;
position:relative;
width:30px;
height:77px;
background:url(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z105/dantearaujo/prev.png) no-repeat 0 0;
}
#nextBtn a, #slider1next a{
background:url(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z105/dantearaujo/next.png) no-repeat 0 0;
}
ol#controls{
margin:1em 0;
padding:0;
height:28px;
}
ol#controls li{
margin:0 10px 0 0;
padding:0;
float:left;
list-style:none;
height:28px;
line-height:28px;
}
ol#controls li a{
float:left;
height:28px;
line-height:28px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
background:#DAF3F8;
color:#555;
padding:0 10px;
text-decoration:none;
}
ol#controls li.current a{
background:#5DC9E1;
color:#fff;
}
ol#controls li a:focus, #prevBtn a:focus, #nextBtn a:focus{outline:none;}
.test{
margin:30px;
}


-->
</style>
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://accordion-for-blogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/easysliderpopular.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

 

 

Refer Screen-shot:

Arrange your "HTML/JavaScript" widget and "Popular Post" widget as mentioned in below scree-shot.

Result:

You'r Done!

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Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails

A few days ago, I posted a tutorial on How to Add a Simple Recent Posts Widget that shows a list with the most recent posts if you would prefer a more minimalist look. In this post, you will see a different way of displaying the Recent Posts on Blogger - this is specially for those who want to show more info like the recent posts excerpt / summary and the posts thumbnails.

To add this gadget is very simple, just follow these steps below:

How to Add the Recent Posts Widget to Blogger

Step 1. From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Layout > click on Add a Gadget link

Step 2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

Step 3. Inside the empty box, add the following code:

<div class="eggTray">
<script src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/listbadge.js">{"pipe_id":"1a6640e2a78b2c6e736f2220529daae5","_btype":"list",
"pipe_params":{"URL":"YOUR-BLOG/feeds/posts/default"},
"hideHeader":"false","height":"500","count": 8 }</script>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;" class="ycdr"><a href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2012/05/recent-posts-widget-with-thumbnails-for.html" target="_blank" title="Grab this widget">Recent Posts Thumbnails</a> <a href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blogger Widget</a></div><noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript></div>
<style type=text/css>
.eggTray {margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;}
.ybr li  {border-bottom:0px #cccccc dotted; padding:0px 0px 10px 0px!important;}
.pipesTitle {padding-top:0px;}
.pipesDescription {display:true;}
.ycdr {background:transparent url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0QCahcziBgslrxLbWEQiBy2u2__ZjHtKqb9kPHceOcPQUp1x9-CrDFJyhaVzA5CIYgTiTv0msGkgXwA1JoEykMuZHjMSd51y-aTEEQE5mZhyphenhyphen7IZE78tRtLwE-LoFPuL_tADAgxMaZ7IQ/s1600/logo.png) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 4px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;}
.ycdr, .ycdr a {color:#999999;}
.widget .popular-posts ul {padding-left:0;}
</style>

Step 4. Replace YOUR-BLOG with the url of your site/blog (ex: http://helplogger.blogspot.com) and pay attention to have no forward slash symbol "/" at the end of your url, otherwise it won't function properly.

• To disable the scroll bar, remove the number 500
• By default, this widget is set to display a maximum of 8 recent posts. To change this number, replace the number 8 with the number of posts desired
• if you want only the posts titles to appear, change true to none and "0" from padding-top:0px with 10

Step 5. Save your widget. And you're done!

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