How to Setup Your Recent Posts and Recent Comments Blogger Page Elements
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 http://YOURSITE.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default . Make sure to replace “YOURSITE” with your actual blog url.
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 http://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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20 Responses to “How to Setup Your Recent Posts and Recent Comments Blogger Page Elements”
11:27 am on February 20th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
great article. helped me a lot.
4:30 pm on February 23rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
what if I have a dot.com address, not a blogspot. What is my feed address?
6:40 pm on February 23rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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.
1:33 am on February 27th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
is there a way to display more than the max of 5 recent posts? is there a way to tweak the code?
7:27 pm on February 27th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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
6:20 pm on March 18th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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
3:18 am on March 28th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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!
8:14 pm on March 30th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hello,
When I configure this recent post and recent comment, I got invalid URL. Why ? I have double check and it is correct.
8:15 pm on March 30th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Update : My error exactly same as Ashutosh Mishra
2:17 am on March 31st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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
10:55 am on March 31st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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!
6:00 pm on March 31st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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.
7:02 pm on March 31st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
The date isn’t displaying for my posts. What do I need to do to get that to happen?
Thanks.
7:38 pm on March 31st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Shawn, what template? Did you read the entire post about how to setup the date?
11:32 pm on April 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
?max-results=10 is not working as expected
9:32 am on April 28th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
How to make redirect recent comments feed url to feed burner?
6:58 pm on May 6th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Is there any way to get a code like this working on old blogger templates that don’t have widgets?
3:15 pm on May 9th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
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.
7:31 pm on May 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@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.
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