Google owned Blogger has become an important tool for web publishing. Blogger is easy to learn, customize and is being preferred as a free alternative to professional blogging platforms like WordPress. Blogger users don’t need to care about the hosting configuration, subscription charges and other associated problems. However, any blogger user has only the option to customize the front end, they are not allowed to install server side web scripts and application to their blogspot or custom domain. This would limit the Blogger users from installing forums, and other useful applications.
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I have already written an article on a method to create popular posts widget for Blogger . This widget is not working anymore . So here is an alternate method to implement popular posts on Blogger .
As said in the previous post about popular posts widget , here also it uses the comments to differentiate the popular posts .
<script type="text/javascript">function pipeCallback(obj) {document.write('<ol style="text-transform: capitalize;">');var i;for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i ){var href = "'" obj.value.items[i].link "'";var item = "<li>" "<a href=" href ">" obj.value.items[i].title "</a> </li>";document.write(item);}document.write('</ol>');}</script><script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback&_id=1a1c6e4e6d4f148e3650fda46910e15f&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com&num=10" type="text/javascript"></script><span style="font-size: 80%">widget by <a href="http://www.techknowl.com">techknowl </a></span>Open your Blogger template’s Layout section and then select to add a new HTML/JavaScript ,through gadgets .Copy the Blogger popular posts widget code to the box and save the settings .Change www.yoursite.com with your blog URL and the value 10 with required number of popular posts .
Popular Posts widget on Blogger uses Pipes , a feed and content aggregation tool from Yahoo. It fetches the Comment feeds and find outs the most commented post .
Now , to Show Popular posts on Blogger
Go to your Blogger template’s layout and select suitable location for the widget to be appeared .
Click to add a gadget and pick up HTML/JavaScript .
You have to paste the following code into it , after making the necessary changes .
<script type="text/javascript">function pipeCallback(obj) {document.write('<ol style="text-transform: capitalize;">');var i;for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i ){var href = "'" obj.value.items[i].link "'";var item = "<li>" "<a href=" href ">"obj.value.items[i].title "</a> </li>";document.write(item);}document.write('</ol>');}</script><script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback&_id=1cf38ae68efbe859c4ba1ee239cec099&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechknowl.com&num=10"type="text/javascript"></script>You have to change techknowl.com with your URL and the number 10 with the required number of posts. Save your template and preview the Popular posts widget .
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Here is how you can create a simple translate widget for Blogger . This translation widget script uses Google language translation tools and Yahoo babel fish translator .
Open Your Blogger template’s layout section and select page elements .
Click to add a gadget in the suitable location and then HTML/JavaScript.
Now copy the following code onto it and save the widget.
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&up_source_language=en&w=160&h=60&title=&border=&output=js"></script>
Google translation widget would appear at the selected location as shown above .
Yahoo babel fish translator widget for Blogger:
Procedure is the same as in the above case ,
<script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service/babelfish2.js?from_lang=en®ion=uk"></script>
Direct link to Online language translation tools
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en
http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service
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I think you might have seen tag clouds in blogs running WordPress blogging software. Tag cloud is a pretty cool widget that collects all post tags in a particular blog, and then projects out the most popular ones in between others. In Blogger blogs, we can rename it to label cloud as here we use to label each post.
Label cloud widgets are filled up with your keywords. Since they are displayed in the sidebar the reader might click on a keyword of their choice and get re-directed to corresponding pages. So putting a label cloud would improve your blog traffic. Interested? Here is a simple hack to enable a label cloud of tag cloud in Blogger. To begin with, you will have to add a label widget anywhere into your blogger layout as shown below.
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