I have just read Amanda’s new way to add recent comments to Blogger layout and wanted share a different Recent Comments hack that lets you show more than 5 comments and much more easier .

1. It will not slow down your blog’s load time.
2. You can add both Recent posts and Recent comments with this way
3. You can show more than 5 posts or comments with this hack.
4. Its easy to apply codes to your template.

Adding Page Elements

Go to your  layout and click Add a Gadget , and then chose HTML / JAVASCRIPT , now type Recent Comments ( or Posts) to title and type same thing (Recent Comments ( or Posts) ) to content and save.

Adding Codes To Template

Now , go to your layout and then click Edit HTML and now check Expand Widget Templates, now find the following code :

</head>

and click here and on the page copy all codes using CTRL+A and then CTRL+C combination and paste the codes before  </head> tag.

You can set the number of posts/comments will be shown on your blog , changing the digit in orange.

var numposts = 10;  

If you did everything i told you to add this widget , now search for the title you typed for the gadget (Recent Comments ( or Posts) ) we added  and delete the lines shown in orange.

<b:widget id=’HTML1′ locked=’false’ title=’Recent Comments’ type=’HTML’>
<b:includable id=’main’>
  <!– only display title if it’s non-empty –>
  <b:if cond=’data:title != &quot;&quot;’>
    <h2 class=’title’><data:title/></h2>
  </b:if>
  <div class=’widget-content’>
    <data:content/> >> Delete these lines
  </div>
  <b:include name=’quickedit’/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

And now add the codes below to the place we deleted the lines , if you can the line in orange to “posts” it will show your recent posts in widget .

 <!– recent articles code start –>
&lt;script src=&quot;/feeds/comments/default?orderby=published&amp;amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;amp;callback=rp&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<!– recent articles code end –>

And save. You cannot preview the widget without saving , so clicking preview will not show you the widget.

Thats all!