76 Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger/Blogspot

A few days ago, I've posted a tutorial about How To Add A Simple Recent Posts Widget but today I want to present to you a very nice Recent Posts widget that comes along with posts thumbnails and post summary as well. If you want to know how to add this Recent Posts widget/gadget to your Blogger blog, then follow the steps below:

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How to Add the Recent Posts Widget to Blogger

Step 1. Go To Blogger > Layout and click on "Add a Gadget" link


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


Step 3. Paste inside the empty box, 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/SITE-URL/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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oxTuqVj1ziA/T6P6wtxqsgI/AAAAAAAACBE/wWR0bb2gfuE/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. Change YOUR-BLOG/SITE-URL with the url address of your site/blog (ex: http://helplogger.blogspot.com) and look to have no forward slash symbol "/" at the end of your url

Note:
  • 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!

If you need more help, leave your comment below.

76 comments:

  1. How to decrease the Thumbnails size???

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  2. nice i get it cool

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  3. lexiedensy7/06/2012

    hi. i was able to make the widget appear however the thumbnails are blank. what to do please? thanks...

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  4. Same Here.... Thumbnails not appearing

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  5. Hello, I tried all what you said but it can't show me anything :(
    here is my blog pliztellme.com

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  6. It worked magic in my blog...thank u for the great tool, ure the best!

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  7. nice post I had added this to my blogger.

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  8. hi, how to make it horizontal instead of vertical recent post? thanks..

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    1. I wannt know the horizontal feature too.

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  9. Anonymous8/14/2012

    I don't see any thumbnails?

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  10. Thanks this works great - much appreciated

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  11. Anonymous8/25/2012

    How to change thumbnail size and summary length?

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  12. Hello, I followed the instructions and everything correctly, but I have a problem.
    The recent posts appeared, but they do not have images(thumbnail), although my original posts have images inside of them.
    this is my blog: http://mylast4.blogspot.com/
    Please I need help ;)
    Thank You

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  13. wow.. greatest share.........

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  14. its blank, why no thumbnail? :'(

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  15. Great tool. Thank you!

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  16. Thanks bro it is handsome i like it

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  17. That's good brother, such a nice post. But, as others complained, how to manage the sumary, thumbnail, title, and even the arrangement? What if i want to show the sumary above the image and title?

    I've published an article due to this matter, maybe some of those who posted the comments above gonna love it. Check it here if you'd like: Recent Post Thumbnail For Blogger.

    Nice to find this blog anyway. Realy a good blog admin, and i love it. :)

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  18. Nice post great man. I made this a few times ago, but no more. Now i use the automic widget for it. Just click and done.

    Sorry for the spam comment a few weeks ago. :)

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  19. Maybe this could help. Thanks!

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  20. Brilliant widget! Thank you! Do you know if there is any way I can change the font colour of the title of each post listed? Also is there a way of selecting different posts to display.

    THANK YOU!!!!!

    info@sardiniababy.com

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  21. Thanks- got it installed, but for some reason the most recent post (first one on list) does not have the text description.
    Nice efforts here! :)

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  22. Its really very nice post

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  23. very cool. thanks.

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  24. Thanks! This was the one I was really looking for. Works perfectly at my blog.

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  25. Anonymous9/27/2012

    Your site is wonderful. I’m so satisfied to have discovered you.I appreciate to this one.

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  26. Keeps coming back with "No Results"

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  27. Thanks! Its really very nice post

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  28. Thanx a lot for this widget..though the thumbnails of the Posts are not appearing in my blog..see it at..

    http://cosmologistic.blogspot.in/

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  29. thankyu..informative.. [;)] Great post!.. keep the posts coming & i will keep reading them. thank for help them. Great blog dude! I just linked to this post on my Delicious. Keep it up!

    By:www.batamia.com

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  30. Its wouldn't be better then this because its truly an informative post. Thanks for the great work and keep going!!!

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  31. two questions:

    - how do I "un-bold" the post title font for my recent x?

    - Can I tell the widget to list posts so that the oldest ones show first?

    Great widget btw. I really like it

    If anyone wants to see what it looks like you can go here for a visual:

    whisperingbird.blogspot.com

    WB

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  32. I want my selected posts in thumbnails in the sidebar, how can I do that?

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  33. thank you!!! It worked fine with me!!!!!
    You rock ^__^

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  34. its very heavy to load this script..

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  35. thanks sir for this wonderful widget, i have successfully added it to dailyschoolnews

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  36. is a really nice widget, needs some work....only one thumbnail was displayed :-)

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  37. I`am looking for tumbnail recent post where the tumbnail goes left to right, is there any?

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  38. Sorry to say but its not working.

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  39. Nice, but why the few of content isn't appear in my blog http://jemick.blogspot.com . Help me please

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  40. Recent Posts doesn't appear in That gadget!

    My Blog: http://bhejamatpaka.blogspot.in

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  41. Anonymous2/21/2013

    I'll test it out. Thank you so much.

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  42. It is not working anymore ...

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  43. Thanks. I've added it to my blog. Your blog is very resourceful. keep it up

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  44. It is not updating the list in my blog! It was working fine! I don't know what happened! My last two article are not showing up!!

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  45. Is adding this script(to make a list) in blog post is spam?

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  46. thank you so much, bro.
    u make my blog become greater :D

    visit me at vickzkater.blogspot.com

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  47. Is there a way to remove the blogger logo? Also, how to increase the summary length? Thanks

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  48. It worked in my blog,thanks a lot for the great tool

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  49. Also to remove the scrollbar, change "height":"500" to "height":"auto"

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  50. Oops! What happend.. look at me :D

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  51. i am trying to get this for http://www.naziapakistan.blogspot.com but its show like this Recent Posts Thumbnails Blogger Widget
    any suggestion pleas

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  52. Hey its great.
    Working for my nicely!.
    Thank you!

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  53. Thanks very much :)
    http://greek-observatory.blogspot.com/

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  54. Thank you very much I have installed this widget at http://www.findmesimilar.com/ but how to increase the width of this widget.
    Thanks in advance.

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  55. Hi, it looks great but I can only seem to get it to display 20 posts. Ideally I need a widget like this one to display all my posts on a page. Can you help? info@sardiniababy.com

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  56. thats great. this tutorial absolutely working.
    www.smarsia.blogspot.com

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  57. I can't thank you enough for this, it's been so helpful :-)

    -Kirsten
    http://lateforteaa.blogspot.co.uk/

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  58. Good work brother now i use this many thanks look!
    http://all-with-all.blogspot.com/

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  59. Thank you- very cool- I appreciate the customization options!

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  60. Is there a way to remove the blogger logo and unbold the post titles?

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  61. How i can do? if i don't need picture thumbnails.

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