Display popular posts widget on Blogger - On Blogger, a popular post is a widget to display a list of posts most frequently visited by visitors. In general, the popular posts widget is installed in the left or right sidebar area. However, some bloggers display one column, it is a single post page only. So, they didn't add the popular posts widget on the Sidebar. Or they might add a popular posts widget in another area of their blog, such as in the footer area.
The purpose of displaying the popular posts widget is to inform blog visitors about the most popular articles and top articles. Of course, this helps visitors to find the articles they are looking for and click on them. Apart from that, the popular post widget can increase blog traffic through clicks from visitors.
The Blogger platform provides a popular post feature that can be added and displayed easily. Blogger platform users can configure the popular posts widget based on the last 7 days, one week, one year, and all time. They can also determine the maximum number of widgets, and display thumbnail images and snippets.
Generally, the popular posts widget provided by Blogger has a simple appearance. You can edit it on the Edit HTML page. You can tinker with the code and arrange it so that the popular posts widget can appear more attractive and elegant. An attractive blog appearance can increase visitor interaction with your blog.
How to Display Popular Posts Widget on Blogger?
In this session, I just want to provide a tutorial to display the popular posts widget on Blogger. This tutorial is used by beginners on the Blogger platform. Maybe I will share a follow-up tutorial regarding this topic. I hope this can help every reader who wants to display the popular posts widget on their blog.
1. Login to your Blogger account.
2. Click “Layout”.
3. In the "Add Gadget" section, select "Popular Posts".
4. Please configure the popular posts widget you want.
5. Click “Save”.
How to Set the Popular Posts Widget
You can set which popular posts on your blog you want to display based on certain settings. Take a look at the fifth point above, you will see settings like the following:
- Title: This is the title of your widget that appears in the top area of the popular posts widget. You can fill in this title such as popular posts, top articles, most interesting articles, and whatever you want.
- Most viewed: This setting adjusts the display of the popular posts widget based on time. You can determine it based on one week, the last 7 days, one month, or all time.
- Show image thumbnail: This setting functions to display a thumbnail image in each popular post article. If you don't want to display thumbnail images, then you don't need to check this setting option.
- Show snippets: This setting is used to display snippets. These are the words that will appear under the title of each article in the popular posts widget. If you don't want to display snippets or footage, then you don't need to check this setting option.
- Maximum number of shown posts: Use this setting to display the number of articles displayed in the popular posts widget.
Conclusion
This tutorial is to display the popular posts widget for every beginner on Blogger. You should also note that usually each blog template has been set by the creator with an elegant appearance, has effects, and is more visual. In my opinion, the default template on the Blogger platform has a fairly simple appearance, but you can edit it yourself. Displaying the popular posts widget will attract visitors to click on each of the most visited articles. So, displaying the popular posts widget can help increase blog traffic.