Customs Recent Posts for Blogger

Recent Posts widget or Recent posts widget is important because it serves as a support blog navigation. Given a list of recent posts, visitors who come not from the main page (homepage) can immediately find out some recent posts from a blog. In addition, recent posts widget can be an offer to visitors blog to know the content of other postings from these blogs.

Recent post widget that I share this time and features a display which is quite interesting. Combination of script recent posts, auto scroll / spy list generate Blogger recent posts widget which has a great effect and may invite interested visitors. As a result, the look / design blog can also be increased in value by ditambahnya these recent posts widget. I've been using this widget and its role in increasing the number of pageviews blog is not in doubt.

Follow these steps and make sure no part missed:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<style type="text/css" media="screen">

<!--

#spylist {

overflow:hidden;

margin-top:5px;

padding:0px 0px;

height:350px;

}

#spylist ul{

width:355px;

overflow:hidden;

list-style-type: none;

padding: 0px 0px;

margin:0px 0px;

}

#spylist li {

width:335px;

padding: 5px 5px;

margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;

list-style-type:none;

float:none;

height:70px;

overflow: hidden;

background:#fff url(http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/ab351/bloggerblogimage/blogger/post.jpg) repeat-x;

border:1px solid #ddd;

}

#spylist li a {

text-decoration:none;

color:#4B545B;

font-size:11px;

height:18px;

overflow:hidden;

margin:0px 0px;

padding:0px 0px 2px 0px;

}

#spylist li img {

float:left;

margin-right:5px;

background:#EFEFEF;

border:0;

}

.spydate{

overflow:hidden;

font-size:10px;

color:#0284C2;

padding:2px 0px;

margin:1px 0px 0px 0px;

height:15px;

font-family:Tahoma,Arial,verdana, sans-serif;

}

.spycomment{

overflow:hidden;

font-family:Tahoma,Arial,verdana, sans-serif;

font-size:10px;

color:#262B2F;

padding:0px 0px;

margin:0px 0px;

}

-->

</style>

    <script language='javascript'> 

imgr = new Array();

imgr[0] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";

imgr[1] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";

imgr[2] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";

imgr[3] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";

imgr[4] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";

showRandomImg = true;

boxwidth = 300;

cellspacing = 6;

borderColor = "#232c35";

bgTD = "#000000";

thumbwidth = 60;

thumbheight = 60;

fntsize = 12;

acolor = "#666";

aBold = true;

icon = " ";

text = "Reply(s)";

showPostDate = false;

summaryPost = 40;

summaryFontsize = 10;

summaryColor = "#666";

icon2 = " ";

numposts = 10;

home_page = "http://ofthink.blogspot.com/";

limitspy=5

intervalspy=6000

</script>

<div id="spylist">

    <script type='text/javascript'>

//<![CDATA[

jQuery(function(){jQuery("ul.spy").simpleSpy(limitspy,intervalspy).bind("mouseenter",function(){jQuery(this).trigger("stop")}).bind("mouseleave",function(){jQuery(this).trigger("start")})});(function(e){e.fn.simpleSpy=function(f,g){f=f||4;g=g||5000;return this.each(function(){var l=e(this),k=true,i=[],m=f,o=0,h=l.find("> li:first").height();l.find("> li").each(function(){i.push("<li>"+e(this).html()+"</li>")});o=i.length;l.wrap('<div class="spyWrapper" />').parent().css({height:h*f});l.find("> li").filter(":gt("+(f-1)+")").remove();l.bind("stop",function(){k=false}).bind("start",function(){k=true});function n(){if(k){var p=e(i[m]).css({height:0,opacity:0,display:"none"}).prependTo(l);l.find("> li:last").animate({opacity:0},1000,function(){p.animate({height:h},1000).animate({opacity:1},1000);e(this).remove()});m++;if(m>=o){m=0}}setTimeout(n,g)}n()})}})(jQuery);function showrecentposts(z){document.write('<ul class="spy">');j=(showRandomImg)?Math.floor((imgr.length+1)*Math.random()):0;img=new Array();for(var o=0;o<numposts;o++){var w=z.feed.entry[o];var g=w.title.$t;var f;var p;if(o==z.feed.entry.length){break}for(var l=0;l<w.link.length;l++){if(w.link[l].rel=="alternate"){p=w.link[l].href;break}}for(var l=0;l<w.link.length;l++){if(w.link[l].rel=="replies"&&w.link[l].type=="text/html"){f=w.link[l].title.split(" ")[0];break}}if("content" in w){var r=w.content.$t}else{if("summary" in w){var r=w.summary.$t}else{var r=""}}postdate=w.published.$t;if(j>imgr.length-1){j=0}img[o]=imgr[j];s=r;a=s.indexOf("<img");b=s.indexOf('src="',a);c=s.indexOf('"',b+5);d=s.substr(b+5,c-b-5);if((a!=-1)&&(b!=-1)&&(c!=-1)&&(d!="")){img[o]=d}cmtext=(text!="no")?'<i><font color="'+acolor+'">('+f+" "+text+")</font></i>":"";var q=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12];var x=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];var u=postdate.split("-")[2].substring(0,2);var h=postdate.split("-")[1];var t=postdate.split("-")[0];for(var e=0;e<q.length;e++){if(parseInt(h)==q[e]){h=x[e];break}}var n=(showPostDate)?'<i><font color="'+acolor+'"> ('+u+" "+h+" "+t+")</font></i>":"";g=(aBold)?"<b>"+g+"</b>":g;var v='<li><a href="'+p+'"><img src="'+img[o]+'" width="'+thumbwidth+'" height="'+thumbheight+'" class="recent-thumb"/></a><a href="'+p+'" class="recent-link">'+g+'</a><div class="spydate">'+n+'</div><div class="spycomment">'+cmtext+"</div>";document.write(v);j++}document.write("</ul>")}document.write('<script src="'+home_page+"feeds/posts/default?max-results="+numposts+'&orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"><\/script>'); 

//]]>

</script>

</div>

Important Notes:

1. Host your own image and replace it. http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/ab351/bloggerblogimage/blogger/post.jpg
2. Change http://ofthink.blogspot.com/ to your url. Make sure there is a slash mark (/) on the back of blog url.
3. Open the Dashboard > Design > Page Elements > Add a Gadgets.
4. Select HTML/Javascript.
5. Paste code into the box all the HTML / Javascript.
6. Save.

Customise your "Recent Post Widget"

To adjust the appearance of recent blog post with the template, note and substitute the following few basic points before putting the script:

boxwidth = 300 is the width of the widget in pixels (px), change the value according to the width of the sidebar.

text = "Reply (s)" is a text on the back of the number of comments, parts Reply (s) you want, for example: comments, comment (s), etc..

numposts = 10 is the number of recent posts I will be crawling, replace its value as desired.

limitspy = 5 is the number of new posts in one view, change its value as desired.

intervalspy = 6000 is the scroll speed / spy in milisecond (ms), change its value to regulate how fast.

You are DONE!