Top 15 Hacks and Widgets For Blogger
Posted by Gosu on 1 September, 2008
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With the help of Javascript we can expand the features of Blogger , if there were enough developers for Blogger , there would be nothing different between Blogger and WordPress . Anyway today i compiled the hacks and widgets which adds Blogger functionality to share with you.
Before adding a code to your Blogger template please save a back-up file of your template and before saving template , preview it otherwise your template may be messed up thats why i want you guys to be careful while adding these hack and widget codes.
Here the list of most useful and needed 15 Blogger widgets and hacks , created by various Blogger users.
- Expandable Posts Hack : This hack gives you the chance of summarizing posts in main page. I do advise it because it makes your Blogger more professional and increases your pageviews.
- Display Random Post Hack : This hack was created inspiring from Google’s Feeling Lucky button , when a visitor of you clicks it ,it shows a random post from your blog. I think this hack will be more effective for video and photo blogs than other blogs.
- Expand / Collapse Labels Hack : If you have kilometers of long labels which are listed on your sidebar this hack is for you.With the help of this hack your visitors will be able to show and hide your labels.
- Label Cloud Widget : This is a cool widget created by Phydeaux , it works like WordPress’s label cloud widget , shows labels which have a lot of posts under it with a big puntos and less posts with small puntos.
- Blogger Archieve Calendar : This another widget by Phydeaux and it works like WordPress’ calendar . Check Phydeaux’s blog for details.
- Blogumus Label Cloud : This is a great Flash animated label cloud by BloggerBuster ,its really quite stylish and professioanl looking.
- Popular Posts Widget : Another widget by BloggerBuster , it shows popular posts depending on comment counts.Its easy to add this widget to your Blogger, just check BloggerBuster for further details.
- Top Commenters Widget : This is the third widget by BloggerBuster , Amanda really works hard for Blogger community , this widget shows top commentators in your sidebar.
- Recent Posts and Recent Comments Widget : This is a widget developed by me , you can easily show more than 5 recent posts or recent comments in your sidebar without slowing down your page load.
- Showing Ads In The Mid of Posts : This is a really great hack that shows your ads in the middle of your posts , you can easily increase click through rates with this hack.
- Adsense Revenue Sharing Hack : With this hack you will be able to show each writers ads in the articles she/he posted.
- Page Navigation Hack : This is a hack by Rias , you can add Page Navigation bar at the bottom of your blog posts.
- Blogger Title Hack : This hack was created for a better Search Engine Optimization , and it really works , if you use it immediatly you will realize the benefits of it.
- Adding More “Recents” Hack : With this hack you will be able to show recent posts from specific labels .
- Drag Drop Sidebars Hack : You can let yours visitors to determine the place of your sidebar widgets using this hack , i cannot say that its useful but looks fine.
Thats all i got , if you have more you can share here . Enjoy it.
29 Comments on “Top 15 Hacks and Widgets For Blogger”
Gosu, I like your ‘enjoy and share’ track, I can’t seem to embed that in my blog on blogger, can you post correct code and instructions?
thanks….Bryan
great summary brother.
although I’ve already apply some of the hacks but the rest of it, I just don’t need it now…someday I might 
thanks again.
All tricks new for me thanks Gosu.
I am also a Big fan of your templates I appreciate your work. Gosu, there is a little request, Will you send me a blogger xml template of http://www.problogger.net.
I have already subscribed to your feeds.
Thanks again..
sir, how do you add the share n enjoy buttons in your post….no dont tell me the exact details as this is ur unique thing….but jus gudie me somehow…i have added certain buttons thru WLW in my blog, but they dont have so many options as u have…u can reply on my mail…waitin 4 ur reply…thanx….n yes…u have sum awesum stuff on ur blog for beginners like us…
Dev , its a plugin of WordPress you can download it from the link below
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/
Sir, will you please make for me xml problogger.net template.
its problogger’s custom design , its not legal to steal it
Thx gosu for putting this post for me but i am not able to put these codes in the template div error comes always.Please do me favour i will be thankful to you if you can.
Template coding Is Here.Please put expandable post hack and navigation bar hack in this for me.
and i also wanna use your gosublogger.net template.Put 2 hacks in that also for me.
http://anshuldudeja55.googlepages.com/connexion.txt
Nice article! Very helpful to noobs like me.. By the way can you add a link of my blog to your list? Thanks!
fantastic…cheers pal just what i always wanted…time to pimp my blog..
Hi Gosu, some of the hacks are new for me while others i used sometime back.but it is definitely good article.
out of topic, i was wondering if we can create two columns for post content side by side like below wordpress theme but for blogger template. thanx.
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You might take a look on sociofluid widget for blogger. It’s emebding a widget in your blog displaying social bookmarking buttons and a nice effect.
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Nice tips…
Great site! Just spent a little time on your site getting much info that will be helpful for me as i am fairly new at this and am always looking for more education. Shows ads in the middle of the post is my next project.
Nice work!
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Top Commentators widget is a must if you are using blogs. Great for fresh content.
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I might say this is really a good idea. I have really hard time to put my blogs on top google position. I am not so good into it. I will try to ask an expert it Sir. Thank you.
thanks for this widgets.
That looks like what you want, i don’t use it or suggest it because it’s not made by Yahoo! or eBay and you probably have to enter your username and password. That widget could pass through a server or proxy or whatever and someone can grab your info. At the same time i could be wrong and it could work great!
thats good??
i will try it
Hi,
I’ve read this post before. I have tried top commenters widgets. I first tried it on my other 2 sites and it works. But when I applied it on my next two blogs, it came up to an error. I asked a friend about it and he said it wasn’t compatible to my blogs. Does compatibility of sites really necessary.
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Very vice job! Your tricks are very interesting and useful.But your recent posts/comments does not works for me,it requires your permission,please solve this problem.