Popular Posts Widgets or Hacks for Blogger Blogspot

Showing the popular posts or top post of your blog article certainly will make visitors stay longer in your blog. So far as blogger.com/ blogspot goes, this Most Popular Post / Favorite Post / Top Posts widget are not available by default. But, blogger.com/blogspot opennes to Javascript motivate many blog savvy to create many hacks including this Popular Post thing.

Here are some hacks or widget to make Popular Post Widget in your blogger.com/blogspot blog:

I. Top Post Widget (Most Viewed Posts) from Postrank.com

Visit http://www.postrank.com/publishers/customize to start
1. Enter your blog URL in the “Specify your website address” box. Example, http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com
2. Choose a Theme
3. Display Options on how many popular posts you want to display.
4. Quick Install: Just copy/paste the code given into your Layout -> Page Element -> Javascript / HTML.
5. Save. Done.

Note: If it’s the first time you put your blog URL there, wait for a moment to let postrank.com index and crawl your blog first. Come back again after a few moment (could be hours) to start the procedure. See the LIVE DEMO here (at the top right sidebar.

II. Popular Post Widget(Most Commented Posts) from Bloggerbuster.com

There are two methods.
The first one is via Feed (showing only 5 most popular posts)

1. After login to your blogger.com account -> Layout -> Add Element -> Feed
2. Copy/paste this code: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=1cf38ae68efbe859c4ba1ee239cec099&_render=rss&num=50&url=http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com
3. Change farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com into your own.
4. Save. Done.

The Second method is using Widget. Read the details here.

III. Popular Posts Hack  (to be continued)

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