how to add Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails in Blogger

If your blog have long posts and you want to help your visitors to find your recent posts quickly, without spending time browsing you blog searching for your older posts. Then displaying small thumbnail images adjacent to post titles in the recent post widget on your Blogger blogs could be the right fix. Now it’s time to display recent posts with thumbnails using html/JavaScript widget in blogger. This not only looks nice, but also entices visitors to click on your posts. This widget will show Title of Post, post summaries, thumbnail of post, number of comments for each post alongside the titles. Date of post etc.Today we will show how to add a Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger.

How To Add This Widget To Your Blogger Blog?

Follow these very simple steps to add the "Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails" in your blog.

• Step 1: Go To Blogger > Design > Page Elements
• Step 2: Click on "Add a Gadget" link
• Step 3: From the pop-up window, choose HTML/JavaScript
• Step 4: Copy and paste the following code below                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               <style type='text/css'> img.recent_thumb {padding:1px;width:55px;height:55px;border:0;
  float:left;margin:10px;}
  .recent_posts_with_thumbs {float: left;width: 100%;min-height: 70px;margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px;padding: 0;font-size:12px;}
  ul.recent_posts_with_thumbs li {padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;min-height:65px;}
  .recent_posts_with_thumbs a {text-decoration:none;}
  .recent_posts_with_thumbs strong {font-size:10px;}</style>
  <script style='text/javascript' src='http://yourjavascript.com/1159358112/www.mybloggertopic.blogspot.com.js'></script>
  <script style='text/javascript'>
  var numposts = 5;
  var showpostthumbnails = true;
  var displaymore = true;
  var displayseparator = true;
  var showcommentnum = true;
  var showpostdate = true;
  var showpostsummary = true;
  var numchars = 100;</script>
  <script src='http://www.mybloggerblog.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentpostswiththumbs'></script>
  <hr/><small><a style='margin-left:10px;align:right;' href='http://mybloggerblog.com/2012/11/recent-posts-widget-with-thumbnails-for_10.html' target='_blank'>Recent Posts Widget</a> | <a href='http://mybloggerblog.com/' target='_blank'>My blogger blog</a></small>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Settings:
  • Change http://www.mybloggerblog.com/ with Your Blog address
  • Change numposts = 5 to Show number of Recent posts with thumbnails
  • Change numchars = 100 to number of characters to show in summary of recent posts
  • Change true to false to activate or deactivate any feature of this widget
  Now just save your widget and check your blog.
•  If you face any problem or difficulty installing this widget, submit your difficulty in comments.