How to list recent post titles by label

Do you want to list all or your most recent posts according to categories/labels? Well then, you’ve come to the right tutorial. I’ve seen people use a LinkList gadget to accomplish this. However this method requires them to MANUALLY add each post link to the gadget every time they publish a post with the specified label. Not good. We’re not going to do that, because we have a better, more

Popular (most commented) posts widget

Show off your most popular posts and at the same time prevent them from being buried in the archive -using Popular Post widget. This time we will be making a Popular Posts widget for Blogger blog. The popularity rank is based on the number of comments each post receives. The comment counts are extracted from your blog’s latest 1000 posts, using a Yahoo! Pipe. See the demo in Blogger Sentral

Add Google Buzz button (with counter) below post

Google Buzz, yet another social networking service, has been launched in February. And yes, yet another post sharing button to be added to your blog -Google Buzz button. The function is of course similar to those of Facebook’s Share button or Twitter’s “Tweet This” button -to share you articles/posts, thus increasing their exposure. You can test the live example of this button in my widget

Submit site/blog to Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines

If your blog has not yet been indexed by the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing), then it’s time to stop waiting and be proactive -submit your blog to them! Submission will increase your blog chances of being indexed the next time they crawl the web. Submission is free and is very easy to do. Checking whether your blog is indexed Before submitting your blog, you might want to

Template Designer: How to change column width

The new Blogger Template Designer makes changing column widths a lot easier. In regular (non Template Designer) layout template, changing blog width requires some code editing in template HTML. With Template Designer you can stay away from the codes, because it can be done from within the designer itself, easy peasy. I. Changing column widths Here’s what to do, Login to your Blogger account.

Blogger Sentral has migrated to custom domain

Blogger Sentral is now located at http://www.bloggersentral.com/. Look inside your browser’s address bar for confirmation! Please update your Blogroll or Linklist to the new url. Of course you can still access the old tutorials from their original blogspot urls -they will be redirected to this new domain automatically, no worries. The migration itself went smoothly and rather uneventful. But

Add Flickr photostream/slideshow widget to Blogger

This tutorial will show you how to make a Flickr slideshow/photostream. It will use Blogger slideshow gadget as a base. The slideshow will display 20 of your most recent Flickr photos. The widget makes use of your Flickr photostream feed URL, so your first step is to find that URL. (for Picasa slideshow, read How to embed Picasa slideshow in a blog) Finding your Flickr photostream feed URL Login

Template Designer: How to use your own background image

Update September 2010: The image upload function is now available in regular Blogger. Jump to the tutorial now. August 2010: You can now upload your own image, via Blogger In Draft. The new Blogger Template Designer offers hundreds of beautiful background images to choose from, yet it does not provide an option to upload your own image. So how do you go about using your own image as a background