When I was revamping my blog, I thought it would be a great thing to show the recent comments of the visitors in the right sidebar. Since I have worked on wordpress, I thought there would be some widget for that for blogger too. Unfortunately, blogger doesn't come with such widget. You always have an option to use third party widgets (that can be integrated into blogger quite easily). For me, I don't prefer this approach mainly because of two reasons.
- You can never trust a third party widget in terms of privacy. It can access cookies and other information quite easily.
- Third party widgets can perform poorly in terms of performance (Additional JS, Memory Cosumption, etc).
- Go to Dashboard > Layout.
- Click on the 'Add a widget' option where you want to add the widget.
- The 'Add a widget' window will popup. Make sure the 'Basics' option is selected.
- Next, select the '+' sign next to the Feed Widget.
- An option will appear asking you for the Feed URL.
- Add the following feed URL
http://[YOUR_BLOG.blogspot.com]/feeds/comments/default?alt=atom&callback=showrecentcomments. In my case, the feed URL would be
http://fahimilyas.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=atom&callback=showrecentcomments
- An option would appear asking for the title, number of items to be shown and their description. You may want to play with these settings as the preview is available below the options. Once you are done, press the save button.
- That's it. You would see the recently added widget in your layout. Save the changes and view the blog :).
Fahim Ilyas
So totally unrelated to your blog...but really cool pic on your blog dp :)
ReplyDeletedp? the one with the topi? hehehehehe.....thnx :)
ReplyDeleteI am having an issue...whenever I do this...it is showing comments form my other blogs too...any ideas?
ReplyDeleteNice catch Tommy John.Well it appears as if it is getting comments from all your blogs instead of one. May be because of custom domain. I would look into this issue deeper and would let you know about
ReplyDeleteany workaround.
i tried this with my template but it doesn't seem to work. I keep getting the 'Invalid feed URL' error..
ReplyDeleteHay Tommy thanks for info but i really want to show the Recent Commented Post Names only in my Recent Comments Portion but in this section the comments are shown in these blogs
ReplyDeleteFruits for Health - Health by Fruits - Fruit Names - Tasty Fruits and Real Estate Facts - Real Estate Book
It's work! but when i test to write a new comment in my post or somebody want to write a comment in my post...it doesn't work...give me your best solution please! thanks before..(you can try to leave a comment in my post but i don't understand why it can be done..)
ReplyDeleteThanks, for the post. I was able to add recent comments but what about recent posts? How to add them?
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