Thursday, July 5, 2012

How To Add Multi-Color Popular Posts Widget For Blogger

In Blogger, there have popular post widget.
Do you like to customize it with great look?
So, you came to right place. you can change
your popular post as multicolor look.You can
see below image.Its not too hard to add it to
your blog. just try this below steps


1. Log in to blogger account and Go to Design >> Edit HTML
    (make sure backup your template first)

2. Put checked marked in Expand Widget Templates

3. Find this code               /* Variable definitions
                                     ====================

4. Paste below code, after  above code

<Group description="PopularPosts Backgrounds" selector="#PopularPosts1">
<Variable name="PopularPosts.background.color1" description="background color1" type="color" default="#fa4242" value="#ff4c54"/>
<Variable name="PopularPosts.background.color2" description="background color2" type="color" default="#ee6107" value="#ff764c"/>
<Variable name="PopularPosts.background.color3" description="background color3" type="color" default="#f0f" value="#ffde4c"/>
<Variable name="PopularPosts.background.color4" description="background color4" type="color" default="#ff0" value="#c7f25f"/>
<Variable name="PopularPosts.background.color5" description="background color5" type="color" default="#0ff" value="#33c9f7"/>
<Variable name="PopularPosts.background.color6" description="background color6" type="color" default="#ff0" value="#7ee3c7"/>
<Variable name="PopularPosts.background.color7" description="background color7" type="color" default="#ff0" value="#f6993d"/>
</Group>

5. Now Find this code  by using Ctrl+F  ]]></b:skin>

6.  Paste below code Before ]]></b:skin> code

#PopularPosts1 ul{margin:0;padding:5px 0;list-style-type:none}
#PopularPosts1 ul li{position:relative;margin:5px 0;border:0;padding:10px}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child{background:$(PopularPosts.background.color1);width:90%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child:after{content:"1"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li{background:$(PopularPosts.background.color2);width:85%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li:after{content:"2"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li{background:$(PopularPosts.background.color3);width:80%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li:after{content:"3"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li{background:$(PopularPosts.background.color4);width:75%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after{content:"4"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li{background:$(PopularPosts.background.color5);width:70%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after{content:"5"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li +li{background:$(PopularPosts.background.color6);width:65%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"6"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li +li{background:$(PopularPosts.background.color7);width:60%}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"7"}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after,
#PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{position:absolute;top:20px;right:-15px;border-radius:50%;background:#353535;width:30px;height:30px;line-height:1em;text-align:center;font-size:28px;color:#fff}
#PopularPosts1 ul li .item-thumbnail{float:left;border:0;margin-right:10px;background:transparent;padding:0;width:40px;height:40px}
#PopularPosts1 ul li a{font-size:12px;color:#444;text-decoration:none}
#PopularPosts1 ul li a:hover{color:#222;text-decoration:none}

7. Again Now Find this code  by using Ctrl+F 

<b:widget id='PopularPosts1' locked='false' title='Popular Posts' type='PopularPosts'>
8. After you found, scroll below until u see this code  </b:widget>

9. Now delete it start to end.

10. After delete is place below code in same place

<b:widget id='PopularPosts1' locked='false' title='Popular Posts' type='PopularPosts'>
<b:includable id='main'>
   <b:if cond='data:title'>
    <h2><data:title/></h2>
   </b:if>
   <div class='widget-content popular-posts'>
    <ul>
     <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>
      <li>
       <b:if cond='data:showThumbnails == &quot;false&quot;'>
        <b:if cond='data:showSnippets == &quot;false&quot;'>
         <a expr:href='data:post.href' expr:title='data:post.title' rel='bookmark'><data:post.title/></a>
        <b:else/>
         <a expr:href='data:post.href' expr:title='data:post.snippet' rel='bookmark'><data:post.title/></a>
        </b:if>
       <b:else/>
        <b:if cond='data:showSnippets == &quot;false&quot;'>
         <b:if cond='data:post.thumbnail'>
          <img class='item-thumbnail' expr:alt='data:post.title' expr:src='data:post.thumbnail'/>
         <b:else/>
          <img alt='no image' class='item-thumbnail' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaopKAoini4Auuen2YAKUZQA1zjEjv1NZ8PelSBvIMmvz4tW8gtIwGzbSTpVp2Kr1BI1K3HVKPJ-5-hj2XGd-BBxwG5EJeDEsiyMIA2HG14Y5zGP4uItqIc_AD6NZmHquZFm5DN6VL85A/s1600/defaultimage.jpg'/>
         </b:if>
         <a expr:href='data:post.href' expr:title='data:post.title' rel='bookmark'><data:post.title/></a>
         <div class='clear'/>
        <b:else/>
         <b:if cond='data:post.thumbnail'>
          <img class='item-thumbnail' expr:alt='data:post.title' expr:src='data:post.thumbnail'/>
         <b:else/>
          <img alt='no image' class='item-thumbnail' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaopKAoini4Auuen2YAKUZQA1zjEjv1NZ8PelSBvIMmvz4tW8gtIwGzbSTpVp2Kr1BI1K3HVKPJ-5-hj2XGd-BBxwG5EJeDEsiyMIA2HG14Y5zGP4uItqIc_AD6NZmHquZFm5DN6VL85A/s1600/defaultimage.jpg'/>
         </b:if>
         <a expr:href='data:post.href' expr:title='data:post.snippet' rel='bookmark'><data:post.title/></a>
         <div class='clear'/>
        </b:if>
       </b:if>
      </li>
     </b:loop>
    </ul>
   </div>
  </b:includable>
</b:widget>

11. Now save your template
      if you have any problem, comment below.

6 comments:

  1. image thumbnail is not showing. sort it out.

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  2. @Shashwat Tiwari
    This is not include thumbnail.Ill create a new post with thumbnail.keep in touch.

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  3. i cannot find Variable definitions..
    what should i do?

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  4. @Aziz Maghfur
    what is your blog URL?

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  5. No variable definitions bro ! :/ I want this widget badly :P Help me out

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