Displaying recent posts or comments on Blogger blogs using Feedburner

If you are on the new Blogger, then you might be wondering how to display your latest posts on your sidebar. The old Blogger used to allow a display of upto 10 of the last posts. Now the new Blogger doesn’t have any such feature.

You can run your blog feed through the Feed Page Element and have the latest 5 posts on display. But 5?? Those five might already be there on your blog mainpage.

So we using Blogger blogs are often searching around on the web how to display at least 10 or more of our latest posts on the sidebar. Of course this is not a new discussion and many experts have written about it. There are hacks by Hoctro, Hackosphere, and Beautiful Beta.

However if you do not want all that modifications in the above hacks, there is another way to get the last 15 (or all) posts using Feedburner BuzzBoost. Of course you need to using Feedburner for this.

What is BuzzBoost? According to Feedburner, BuzzBoost republishes your burned feed’s content as go-anywhere HTML. To set this up, log in to your Feedburner account, go to the ‘Publicise’ tab, choose ‘BuzzBoost’, and follow the instructions there, and activate the service. On the page that followed, copy the html code into your blog where you want the latest posts to appear.

There are some customisation options available with this service. For instance, you can set the number of items to display, option of displaying the item author name, displaying parts of the item contents, etc. There are instructions given there on how you can apply your own styles. To see a live example, check out the ‘Latest posts’ column at the bottom of this blog.

By the way, I’m not a techie and this is just an alternative I discovered, and thought might be useful to someone.

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