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Related Posts for Blogger

One of the many ways to engage your reader to your blog is by providing similar recipes to what they are experiencing now. It is a way of offering similar experience from a different perspective. Related posts widget does that job with ease. This widget identifies the categories of current post and provides other available posts from same category; not just from recent stories, but also from from your blog archive. Advantage includes the reduction of bounce rate as well as growth in traffic. Besides, it helps to improve SEO. This widget, designed with minimal coding, offers scalability overs its appearance and responsiveness.

Recent Posts Widget for Blogger

As the name specifies, a recent posts widget displays the most up-to-date content of your blog. Unlike popular posts widget that displays most discussed blog posts or related posts widget that showcases posts fall into similar category, it displays a collection of recently published blog articles. Benefit of having such widget is it helps blog readers to find the latest post with minimum efforts. As well as it makes blog visitors to browse further from the landing page without leaving your blog, i.e. reduces blog bounce rate. Additionally one doesn't have to send an email every-time a post has been created, i.e. reduces dependency on email marketing. Unfortunately, blogger team does not provide such feature as pre-build widget; so one has to add this via some third party coding.

Customize Popular Post Widget

'Recent Posts' or 'Popular Posts' widget is very essential widget for both personal and professional blogs. This widget gives information about your popular blog posts to your readers. So you should look after this widget very carefully. Also if you provide some style with this widget, your reader will be simply overwhelmed. By default blogger provides some styles for this widget but somehow those are obsolete and unprofessional. You are actually recommended to go through those styles for the first time. If you found those are not suitable for your blog, you can come back to this tutorial. I've written few posts about customization of this widget. You can also check those out in my blog in case you're interested. This tutorial will show you how to display popular posts in horizontally rather than vertically. Only problem is it requires larger horizontal space i.e. larger width of of your blog. So before you proceed, make sure you have enough room in your b...

Customize Popular Post Widget

'Recent Posts' or 'Popular Posts' widget is very essential widget for every blog. It displays your popular blog posts (based upon some analytic statistics) along with image, title and description (obviously these are optional). By default blogger provides some styles for this widget but somehow these are obsolete and unprofessional. I've written few posts about customization of this widget. This post is also one of those customization using css3 transition property. The main reason for using css instead of javascript or jQurey is that it requires less time for loading of DOM. Also css properties are very easy to understand as well as to implement. Hope you'll like it.

Customize Popular Post Widget

'Recent Posts' or 'Popular Posts' widget displays your popular blog posts (based upon some analytic statistics) along with image, title and description (although these are optional). It is undoubtedly very essential widget for every blog. I've written quite a few posts about customization of this widget. This post is also one of those. Here some css3 properties like transition , transform , backface-visibility , transform-style etc. are used. You can also use css3 perspective property, but right now this property is not supported in all browser. The main reason for using css instead of javascript or jQurey is that it requires less time for DOM loading. Also css properties are very easy to understand as well as to implement. Hope you'll enjoy it.