Recent Posts Gadget with Excerpt for Blogger

This widget displays Recent Posts in a simple and beautiful way. It shows a short description of post, Date, Author and post link of just one post at the upper section of widget. And at the bottom section it shows a list of recent posts with their links and when you hover on any post it shows its details on the upper section. One of the best thing of this widget is that it keeps rotating all the posts one by one at its top.
So, before installing the widget take a look at the widget.

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Adding Recent Posts Gadget with Excerpt to Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Go to Layout >> Click on Add a Gadget and select HTML/JavaScript Gadget from the list of Gadgets
Step 3. Now Copy the below code and Paste it in the HTML/JavaScript Widget Box

<style>
.gfg-root {
width: 100%;
height : auto;
position : relative;
overflow : hidden;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align : center;
font-size: 12px;
border: 2px solid #CAD4E7;
}
.gfg-title {
font-size: 16px;
font-weight : bold;
color : #3D5A99;
background-color: #ECEEF5;
line-height : 1.4em;
overflow : hidden;
white-space : nowrap;
}
.gfg-entry {
background-color : white;
width : 100%;
height : 9.2em;
position : relative;
overflow : hidden;
text-align : left;
margin-top : 3px;
}
.gf-title a {
font-weight: bold;
color: #3F86C6;
}
.gfg-subtitle {
display: none;
}
.gfg-list {
position : relative;
overflow : hidden;
text-align : left;
}
.gfg-listentry {
line-height : 1.5em;
overflow : hidden;
white-space : nowrap;
text-overflow : ellipsis;
padding-left : 15px;
padding-right : 5px;
}
.gfg-listentry-odd {
background-color : #eeeeee;
}
.gfg-listentry-even {
background-color : #fefefe;
}
.gfg-listentry-highlight {
background: #748BB7;
}
.gfg-listentry-highlight:before {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
content: '\25BA ';
font-size: 14px;
color: #eee;
}
.gfg-listentry-highlight a {
color: #eee;
}
.gfg-root .gfg-entry .gf-result {
position : relative;
background-color : white;
width : auto;
height : 100%;
padding-left : 20px;
padding-right : 5px;
}
.gfg-root .gfg-entry .gf-result .gf-title {
font-size: 14px;
line-height : 1.2em;
overflow : hidden;
white-space : nowrap;
text-overflow : ellipsis;
margin-bottom : 2px;
}
.gfg-root .gfg-entry .gf-result .gf-snippet {
height : 3.8em;
color: #000000;
margin-top : 3px;
}
.clearFloat {
clear : both;
}
</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/dynamicfeed/gfdynamicfeedcontrol.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showGadget() {var feeds = [{title:'List',url:'http://www.blogolect.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?redirect=false&start-index=5&max-results=10'},];
new GFdynamicFeedControl(feeds, 'feedGadget',{title: 'Latest Posts', numResults : 10, displayTime : 5000, hoverTime : 500});} google.load("feeds", "1");
google.setOnLoadCallback(showGadget);
</script>
<div id="feedGadget">Loading...</div>

Customization:

• Replace www.blogolect.blogspot.com with your Blog/Website URL Address
• In start-index=5 change the number 5 to the number of which post you want to begin to show
• Now in max-results=10 change 10 to the number of posts you want to show

Step 4. Hit the Save Button
And you're Done!  

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