Add Recent Comments Widget to your Blogger Blog

How to install Recent Comments widget for blogger?

1. Login to the blogger dashboard.
2. Go to ‘Page Elements’ tab
3. Click on Add a Gadget. Select HTML/Javascript widget type.
4. Now this is the most important step. Select the whole code given below and paste it in the widget box you have just opened above.

<script style=”text/javascript”>

function showrecentcomments(json) {

var numcomments = 5;

var showcommentdate = true;

var showposttitle = true;

var numchars = 100;

for (var i = 0; i < numcomments; i++) {

var entry = json.feed.entry[i];

var alturl;

if (i == json.feed.entry.length) break;

for (var k = 0; k < entry.link.length; k++) {

if (entry.link[k].rel == ‘alternate’) {

alturl = entry.link[k].href;

break;

}

}

alturl = alturl.replace(“#”, “#comment-“);

var postlink = alturl.split(“#”);

postlink = postlink[0];

var linktext = postlink.split(“/”);

linktext = linktext[5];

linktext = linktext.split(“.html”);

linktext = linktext[0];

var posttitle = linktext.replace(/-/g,” “);

posttitle = posttitle.link(postlink);

var commentdate = entry.published.$t;

var cdyear = commentdate.substring(0,4);

var cdmonth = commentdate.substring(5,7);

var cdday = commentdate.substring(8,10);

var monthnames = new Array();

monthnames[1] = “Jan”;

monthnames[2] = “Feb”;

monthnames[3] = “Mar”;

monthnames[4] = “Apr”;

monthnames[5] = “May”;

monthnames[6] = “Jun”;

monthnames[7] = “Jul”;

monthnames[8] = “Aug”;

monthnames[9] = “Sep”;

monthnames[10] = “Oct”;

monthnames[11] = “Nov”;

monthnames[12] = “Dec”;

if (“content” in entry) {

var comment = entry.content.$t;}

else

if (“summary” in entry) {

var comment = entry.summary.$t;}

else var comment = “”;

var re = /<S[^>]*>/g;

comment = comment.replace(re, “”);

document.write(‘<br/>’);

if (showcommentdate == true) document.write(‘On ‘ + monthnames[parseInt(cdmonth,10)] + ‘ ‘ + cdday + ‘ ‘);

document.write(‘<a href=”‘ + alturl + ‘”>’ + entry.author[0].name.$t + ‘</a> commented’);

if (showposttitle == true) document.write(‘ on ‘ + posttitle);

document.write(‘<br/>’);

if (comment.length < numchars) {

document.write(‘<i>’);

document.write(comment);

document.write(‘</i>’);}

else

{

document.write(‘<i>’);

comment = comment.substring(0, numchars);

var quoteEnd = comment.lastIndexOf(” “);

comment = comment.substring(0, quoteEnd);

document.write(comment + ‘…<a href=”‘ + alturl + ‘”>(more)</a>’);

document.write(‘</i>’);}

document.write(‘<br/>’);

}

document.write(‘<br/>’);

}

</script>

<script src=”http://xyz.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments”>

</script><a href=”http://dacoolhunter.blogspot.com/”>Recent Comments </a>widget by <a href=”http://dacoolhunter.blogspot.com/”>VAMPIRE</a>

1. Scroll down to src=http://xyz.blogspot.com and replace xyz with your blog’s name. For example if your blog’s URL is http://abc.blogspot.com then the code should become src=http://abc.blogspot.com DO NOT TOUCH any other part of the code or else it might create problems.
2. You are done! Lastly please do not remove the footer credits*.

Please let me know if you face any problem implementing the code above.