How To Add Stylish Recent Post In Blogger

Recent posts widget is the best solution to represent all of your recently published post in front of your readers. Usually, we add this recent post widget in our blog’s sidebar. By default, blogger doesn’t support this widget from the widget panel. But we can create and use recent posts widget for blogger very easily.

So, let's check out "How To Add Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails"-

Step 1: Go to Blogger Dashboard - Click on Layout

Step 2: Click on "Add a Gadget"

Step 3: Select "HTML/JavaScript" from the list. Copy and Paste the below code.

<style scoped='' type='text/css'>
/* Recent Post Widget */
#recentpostnav{width:100%;border:1px solid #585858;margin:0 auto}
#borpbox{margin:0}
.recentposarea{display:block;background:#fff;height:79px;border:1px solid #ddd;margin:5px 0;padding:10px}
.recentposarea img{float:left;background:#fff;border:1px solid #ddd;margin-right:8px;padding:4px;height:70px;width:70px}
.recentposarea h6,.recentposarea h6 a{text-decoration:none;margin:0;color:#111;font-size:13px!important;font-weight:700!important;}
.recentposarea:hover{background-color:#fefefe}
.recentposarea p{text-align:left;font-size:12px;margin:5px 0;color:#555;line-height:normal}
#loadrecentpost{font-family:Tahoma;color:#888;font-size:100px;letter-spacing:-10px;text-shadow:-5px 0 1px #444;text-align:center;background:url(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-60aISBQLRY0/VFBMqzLfzGI/AAAAAAAABgM/GInmVTvEzkc/s1600/loader.gif) 50% 50% no-repeat #fff;height:470px;border:1px solid #ddd}
#rpnavigation{color:#bbb;border:1px solid #ddd;font-family:Verdana;text-align:center;font-size:12px;margin:0}
#rpnavigation:hover{background-color:#fefefe}
#rpnavigation a{color:#141414!important;font-family:Tahoma!important;font-size:12px!important;font-weight:400!important;display:block;padding:5px 10px}
#rpnavigation span{padding:5px 10px}
#rpnavigation .next{float:right}
#rpnavigation .previous{float:left}
#rpnavigation .home{text-align:center}
#rpnavigation a:hover,#rpnavigation span.noactived{color:transparant!important}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
    var numfeed = 5;
    var startfeed = 0;
    var urlblog = "http://blogornate.blogspot.com/";
    var charac = 40;
    var urlprevious, urlnext;
function arlinafeed(e,t){for(var n=e.split("<"),r=0;r<n.length;r++)-1!=n[r].indexOf(">")&&(n[r]=n[r].substring(n[r].indexOf(">")+1,n[r].length));return n=n.join(""),n=n.substring(0,t-1)}function showrecentpostsae(e){var t,n,r,a,i,s="";urlprevious="",urlnext="";for(var l=0;l<e.feed.link.length;l++)"previous"==e.feed.link[l].rel&&(urlprevious=e.feed.link[l].href),"next"==e.feed.link[l].rel&&(urlnext=e.feed.link[l].href);for(var d=0;d<numfeed&&d!=e.feed.entry.length;d++){t=e.feed.entry[d],n=t.title.$t;for(var l=0;l<t.link.length;l++)if("alternate"==t.link[l].rel){r=t.link[l].href;break}i="content"in t?t.content.$t:"summary"in t?t.summary.$t:"",a="media$thumbnail"in t?t.media$thumbnail.url:"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BHuXHny1kOk/VXrkSyxKCjI/AAAAAAAACas/pZLJAEUDtds/s1600/no-image.png",s+="<div class='recentposarea'>",s+="<a href='"+r+"' target='_blank'><img src='"+a+"' /></a>",s+="<h6><a href='"+r+"'>"+n+"</a></h6>",s+="<p>"+arlinafeed(i,charac)+"...</p>",s+="</div>"}document.getElementById("borpbox").innerHTML=s,s="",s+=urlprevious?"<a href='javascript:navigasifeed(-1);' class='previous'>Previous</a>":"<span class='noactived previous'>Previous</span>",s+=urlnext?"<a href='javascript:navigasifeed(1);' class='next'>Next</a>":"<span class='noactived next'>Next</span>",s+="<a href='javascript:navigasifeed(0);' class='home'>Home</a>",document.getElementById("rpnavigation").innerHTML=s}function navigasifeed(e){var t,n;-1==e?(t=urlprevious.indexOf("?"),n=urlprevious.substring(t)):1==e?(t=urlnext.indexOf("?"),n=urlnext.substring(t)):n="?start-index=1&max-results="+numfeed+"&orderby=published&alt=json-in-script",n+="&callback=showrecentpostsae",incluirscript(n)}function incluirscript(e){1==startfeed&&removerscript(),document.getElementById("borpbox").innerHTML="<div id='loadrecentpost'></div>",document.getElementById("rpnavigation").innerHTML="";var t=urlblog+"/feeds/posts/default"+e,n=document.createElement("script");n.setAttribute("type","text/javascript"),n.setAttribute("src",t),n.setAttribute("id","arlinalabel"),document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(n),startfeed=1}function removerscript(){var e=document.getElementById("arlinalabel"),t=e.parentNode;t.removeChild(e)}onload=function(){navigasifeed(0)};
//]]>
</script>
<div id="borpbox"></div>
<div id="rpnavigation"></div>

Configuration:

You may replace the var numfeed = “5” to control the recent post number.
Replace the “http://blogornate.blogspot.com/” URL with your blog’s URL.