Saturday, January 17, 2015

How to Add Popular Posts Widget and Modify It


Blogger.com platform served blogger to edit and modify their blogs so it can be attractive. One of the features is popular posts widget. It is well-supported widget which manage the blog’s content systematically. The tutorial how to add the popular posts widget and the modification is written below.

Firstly, you need to open blogger.com on your browser’s bar. And then sign in to your blog. In the next stage go to blogger’s layout and click it. Then, click “Add a Gadget” on the layout so you will find a list of widgets in new window of the browser. At the same time, choose or search a widget that namely “Popular Posts” and then click it. After clicked it, the configuration of popular posts will be shown and you need to configure its settings. The best options to set it are uncheck the image thumbnail and snippet. It’s better to keep it natural and clean and then save it.

In order to modify your popular posts widget, you need to customize it with using a plugin. The “popular posts” which has just created is in default styles form. Technically speaking, the designing of it needs a custom styles method. So, the next stage is click to your blog’s template on the dashboard. And then, back up the template so if anything goes wrong, you can turn it back to normal. Furthermore, you click the “Edit HTML” and then the list of HTML’s codes is shown. At the same time, search for a </b:skin> code and then expand it with click the black arrow. And then copy and paste the bellows code’s styles below just above </b:skin>.

/*--- Tips Monetize Popular Posts --- */
.popular-posts ul {
padding-left: 0px;
counter-reset: popcount;
}
.popular-posts ul li:before {
list-style-type: none;
margin-right: 15px;
padding: 0.3em 0.6em;
counter-increment: popcount;
content: counter(popcount);
font-size: 16px;
background: #292D30;
color: #ffffff;
position: relative;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: georgia;
float: left;
border: 2px solid #dddddd;
box-shadow: 1px 2px 9px #666666; }
.popular-posts ul li {
border-bottom: 1px dashed #dddddd;
}
.popular-posts ul li:hover {
border-bottom: 1px dashed #696969;
}
.popular-posts ul li a {
text-decoration:none; color:#5A5F63;
}
.popular-posts ul li a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
}

Finally, if you want to customize the background’s color and the color just edit the number of it (according to html codes of color) and save your template and done. Visit your blog to see if it works.


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