Add a Colorful Popular Posts Widget on Blogger (Blog trick)

Making your blog look interesting and catchy is one of the most important thing. Adding a colorful popular posts widget is a nice option to make your blog look more beautiful and eye catching. By default, blogger allows you to add a popular posts widget however, in this article you will be able to add a multicolored widget displaying popular posts of your blog.

The widget script comes with three display options i.e. display only titles of post, titles with thumbnails or just thumbnails. Follow below mention steps to add a widget.

Add a Colorful Popular Posts Widget on Blogger

Go to Your Blog Template > Edit HTML > Proceed and check "Expand Widget Templates"
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#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}

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<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>

Paste the code shown below just below/after it

<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 == "false"'> <b:if cond='data:showSnippets == "false"'> <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 == "false"'> <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/AVvXsEgN3_Bp7W6tc1vXg3BV0HwFHnBzUQXTJ67CgqFSiJm_VeAtUTpMFfFAxkQF6xcQGJL8-HQwLN6uXgaiTzc5YM5x_mKM2xX51ZnSxonqrHoO5vklcXIHrDcXKuhrgY6SLG0QdjkQFC81tlQ/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/AVvXsEgN3_Bp7W6tc1vXg3BV0HwFHnBzUQXTJ67CgqFSiJm_VeAtUTpMFfFAxkQF6xcQGJL8-HQwLN6uXgaiTzc5YM5x_mKM2xX51ZnSxonqrHoO5vklcXIHrDcXKuhrgY6SLG0QdjkQFC81tlQ/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>

Save Your Template

Settings

Now got o Page Element You will find out a popular widget
Click on the edit link of Popular Posts widget
Select “Display Up To 7 Posts”
Now Save the widget

How to Change the color scheme

If you want to change the color scheme, Go To

Design → Template Designer → Advanced → PopularPostsBackground

and select the colors you want.

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