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How to Setup Your Recent Posts and Recent Comments Blogger Page Elements

Posted: Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | Author:

In order to enable the Recent Posts and Recent Comments page elements in your recently downloaded Blogger template, you need to follow a couple simple steps.

These lists aren’t going to show up when you first install the template so we’re going to bring them to life now. They are actually both RSS Feed widgets so we’ll need to paste in your feed and comment rss feeds to make them work.

Let’s start with the Recent Posts page element so click to edit it. Then paste in your RSS feed url which will most likely be in this format https://YOURSITE.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default . Make sure to replace “YOURSITE” with your actual blog url.

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There’s no need to change the title (unless you want to call it something else) so then hit “Save Changes”. Then save your blogger layout and go over to your other browser window, refresh and see the Recent Posts appear in your blog’s sidebar.

Now you’re going to do the exact same thing with the “Recent Comments” page element but you’ll instead use this feed format https://YOURSITE.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default . Again, make sure to replace “YOURSITE” with your actual blog url. Save and make sure it’s working properly. If it doesn’t appear on your blog, chances are you don’t have the correct feed url or you might not have any comments yet.

If you really want to fine tune your Recent Posts and Comments settings like increasing the max number displayed to 10 you can. Go read our advanced recent posts settings article and take your widgets to another level.

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Loe on Feb 20, 2008, 11:27 am  

great article. helped me a lot.


   
Justin on Feb 23, 2008, 4:30 pm  

what if I have a dot.com address, not a blogspot. What is my feed address?


   
David on Feb 23, 2008, 6:40 pm  

Justin, it should be something like this
http://www.YOUR-URL.com/feeds/posts/default

Another way to find out is to scroll down to the bottom of your blogger page and look for the “Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)” link and copy that url.


   
don on Feb 27, 2008, 1:33 am  

is there a way to display more than the max of 5 recent posts? is there a way to tweak the code?


   
David on Feb 27, 2008, 7:27 pm  

don, I think so but I’m still trying to test it. Try adding this to your feed url: ?max-results=10
The url should then look something like: http://YOURURL.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/?max-results=10


   
Al Maawali on Mar 18, 2008, 6:20 pm  

Hi,

I tryed the recent post thing with my older blog and it worked but with the newer one, it shows me that the URL is invalid. What do you think may be causing this problem?

I’de appreciate the help πŸ™‚


   
Ashutosh Mishra on Mar 28, 2008, 3:18 am  

I have had the Recent Comments widget on my blog for ages and suddenly it’s not working. Here’s what I get –
http://ashuboss99.googlepages.com/Screenshot.png

I also tried adding the ?alt=rss (or whatever like that) but that doesn’t work either!

πŸ˜₯ πŸ™ ❓ 😯


   
Ethan on Mar 30, 2008, 8:14 pm  

Hello,

When I configure this recent post and recent comment, I got invalid URL. Why ? I have double check and it is correct.


   
Ethan on Mar 30, 2008, 8:15 pm  

Update : My error exactly same as Ashutosh Mishra


   
David on Mar 31, 2008, 2:17 am  

Ethan & Ashutosh, That’s really strange since it’s always been working for me as well. Blogger must have changed something to prevent it from working anymore. You might want to check out their Help Group and see if any solution has been posted there.

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help


   
sasa on Mar 31, 2008, 10:55 am  

I downloaded a great template, implemented otehr feeds…but the above feed above is not working. I get the url..saying that it is not correct. I did everything above correct, but is still is telling me this message. What is wrong? Help!


   
David on Mar 31, 2008, 6:00 pm  

sasa, there seems to be a bug with Blogger on this. Others have also have had similar problems. I’m not sure the Blogger staff even knows about this.


   
Shawn on Mar 31, 2008, 7:02 pm  

The date isn’t displaying for my posts. What do I need to do to get that to happen?

Thanks.


   
David on Mar 31, 2008, 7:38 pm  

Shawn, what template? Did you read the entire post about how to setup the date?


   
gofree on Apr 25, 2008, 11:32 pm  

?max-results=10 is not working as expected πŸ™


   
beny_hirmansyah on Apr 28, 2008, 9:32 am  

How to make redirect recent comments feed url to feed burner?


   
Carlo on May 6, 2008, 6:58 pm  

Is there any way to get a code like this working on old blogger templates that don’t have widgets?


   
camille on May 9, 2008, 3:15 pm  

Thanks for the nature’s charm template. I really love it. I can’t seem to get the tabs to work. What can I do? I’m extremely new at this sort of thing. Thanks.


   
David on May 11, 2008, 7:31 pm  

@camille, make sure to check the “Expand widget templates” checkbox on the “edit html” blogger page. Then search the template for
<li><a href="#" accesskey="2" title="">Info</a></li>
<li><a href="#" accesskey="3" title="">Photos</a></li>
<li><a href="#" accesskey="4" title="">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#" accesskey="5" title="">Contact</a></li>
That’s where you change the links.


   
Tony on Jun 5, 2008, 5:51 pm  

Hey David,

The recent posts widget still displays posts that I have deleted. Is there a way for it to know to only show the recent posts that still exist.

Also, when I try to change the rss feed url to end with /default?alt=rss it then eliminates the deleted posts form the widget but will not update to show the any new posts I create.

Any help would be great,

Thanks


   
Everyday Finance on Jun 8, 2008, 7:32 pm  

HELP!! Please. 😳

I’m just about through transitioning all my information, blogroll, widgets etc to this new wonderful template and now the oddest thing is happening. The little wrench appears at the bottom right of every html box, etc. even when logged out of blogger (i.e., now every visitor can see this icon which should only be visible when editing in Blogger as a logged-in owner). Any ideas? I’m not sure if this has anything to do with the template, but I’ve never come across this before and I’d hate to have to switch to a lousy google standard again. Thanks to anyone that can help!
Everyday Finance 😯


   
LVCHEN on Jun 24, 2008, 4:58 am  

I use this one
http://lvchen716.googlepages.com/rc20_eng
It is a nice widget with realtime comment and article title


   
romy on Jun 25, 2008, 9:08 am  

Hello,

When I configure this recent post and recent comment, I got invalid URL. Do I need to do something else in Blogger ❓


   
zEEROCKz on Jul 3, 2008, 6:22 am  

Helpful tips.. Thnxxx


   
Ian Yang on Jul 4, 2008, 7:08 pm  

thanks for the great tip, it’s working fine on my blog! =D


   
toni on Jul 11, 2008, 2:03 am  

thanks, it worked so easily πŸ™‚ is there a way you can help me to also reply to comments directly. so when people read the comments, they will see the reply to it, just beside the said comment . thanks in advance


   
John on Aug 2, 2008, 7:08 am  

Thanks you for your tips. It help me to build my 1st blog.


   
blankshooting on Aug 25, 2008, 11:13 am  

thanks for this great tip!


   
bekbek on Aug 27, 2008, 12:31 pm  

Like Everyday Finance (see previous comments), for some reason I’m getting the little wrench icon on two of my widgets (Archives and Recent Posts), showing on the page itself. They show even if I am logged off –i.e. they show for everybody, not just me.

Any idea how to correct?


   
Steph on Aug 28, 2008, 9:49 am  

Hey everyone, you can bypass the “invalid URL” issue with the recent post feeds by using this link instead:

http://www.YOUR-URL.com/feeds/posts/default

Works like a charm.


   
blogger on Sep 11, 2008, 11:41 pm  

thanks for this great tip , i was thinking only with customise templates only recent blog post can added

Thanks


   
Charles on Sep 15, 2008, 6:10 pm  

Yes. Very good


   
Nadir on Sep 26, 2008, 3:28 pm  

nto bad, I also made my blog called: “how to setup my blog” when I saw how many people has the problem to set it up correctly.


   
Nadir on Sep 26, 2008, 3:30 pm  

You can find some similar tips here:

http://howtosetupmyblog.blogspot.com/

how to add sitemap to your blog, remove the navigation bar etc…


   
aleef on Oct 10, 2008, 6:35 pm  

very good info and help me a lot. thanks david! :mrgreen:


   
Wetter on Oct 16, 2008, 6:01 am  

Nice article. It was very helpful for me.


   
Carlos Cavalcanti on Oct 30, 2008, 6:36 pm  

πŸ’‘

Whats the feed format for “Most Commented”?

:mrgreen:


   
bilecem on Nov 20, 2008, 3:25 pm  

how can i increase number of resesnt post in this widget?. it shows only 5 post πŸ™„


   
stare gry on Nov 25, 2008, 5:08 am  

I have had the Recent Comments widget on my blog for ages and suddenly it’s not working.


   
stare gry on Nov 25, 2008, 5:09 am  

I have had the Recent Comments widget on my blog for ages and suddenly itΓ’οΏ½οΏ½s not working.


   
Fahim Ilyas on Dec 8, 2008, 11:05 pm  

Here is how i did it.

http://fahimilyas.blogspot.com/2008/12/showing-recent-comments-in-your.html


   
mahaputra on Dec 13, 2008, 9:03 am  

where can i put my html code(google adsense for search)in this beautiful template


   
Vijay on Dec 15, 2008, 12:42 pm  

Awesome man!! You were upto the point!!


   
Mr. Wellhead on Dec 17, 2008, 4:27 am  

David.

It does not work at my site for the code recent comment. The result is the recent post up to 5, after i put recent comment code (http://YOURSITE.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default).

You could check it at my sidebar for the title recent comment at this URL: http://crude-oil-futures.blogspot.com


   
Mr. Wellhead on Dec 17, 2008, 4:38 am  

Dear David.

My problem about the recent code in okey now since i change the feed address by using this feed:

http://crude-oil-futures.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=atom&callback=showrecentcomments

and your feed code as the article how to build recent comment is this:

http://YOURSITE.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

So please update the post david. Thanks you.

Do this web offer forum david?

Your sincerely;
http://crude-oil-futures.blogspot.com
Mr. Wellhead


   
Oliver on Dec 21, 2008, 12:05 pm  

To the people who have trouble on non-updating ‘recent posts’ widget.

If you have a feedburner url, copy/paste that instead of your default feed url. This will not only give updated recent posts but will also un-include your deleted posts.

Hope this helps.


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