Stylish Popular Posts Widget With Round Thumbnails For Blogger

Popular Posts  blog's template easily. So let's start the tutorial on how you can easily add a stylish popular posts widget to your blogspot blog.

Add Stylish Popular Posts Widget to Blogger Blog:

First of all, you need to add Blogger's default Popular Posts widget to your blog and using some CSS coding, modify it accordingly to your needs. So, follow the below-given steps.
  1. Simply, Go to Blogger > Layout.
  2. Click on Add a gadget link and Choose Popular Posts gadget from the gadgets list.
  3. Now make following settings: 
  • Set most viewed to Last 7 days (preferred) or you can set it according to your needs.
  • Check image thumbnail and snippet to show thumbnail along with post summary. It will make our gadget spicier.
  • Select no. of posts you want to show. In this example, I am selecting 6. You can show at most 10 posts. (Take a look at the picture below.)
  • Save the widget and head on to the steps mentioned below.
  1. Now Go to Blogger > Template.
  2. Backup your template to prevent it from any crash.
  3. Click on Edit HTML Tab and Search </b:skin> tag. (Use Ctrl+F for quick find)
  4. Now Just above the </b:skin>, paste the below given codings.
  5. /*--- BBeginner.Com Popular Posts --- */
    .popular-posts ul{padding-left:0px;}
    .popular-posts ul li {background: #FFF url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdsFXQS_MWYygPZ7vAI3_VdGIuFeYtbuuSfOqhx7jP4Tp8XD35ASvXwodUEltDFWRZVmdPr9UwI9SPGO1e7Sbd9DnFoDHoq8Cg2ECxohZFrekM2denNblVpoGuKsvQWQ8jzWZTOjx7IM/s1600/bb-bullet.gif)  no-repeat scroll 5px 10px;
      list-style-type: none;
      margin:0 0 5px 0px;
      padding:5px 5px 5px 20px !important;
      border: 1px solid #ddd;
      border-radius:10px;
      -moz-border-radius:10px;
      -webkit-border-radius:10px;
    }
    .popular-posts ul
      li:hover {
      border:1px solid #6BB5FF;
    }
    .popular-posts ul
      li a:hover {
      text-decoration:none;
    }
    .popular-posts .item-thumbnail img {
      webkit-border-radius: 100px;
      -moz-border-radius: 100px;
      border-radius: 100px;
      -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
      -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
      box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
    }
  6. Save your template and You're all done!
Now, take a look at your blog and see this amazing widget in action.
I hope you successfully added this great looking widget to your blog. If you are facing any difficulty then let me know in comments. I will be really happy to help you all :)

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