How to create Latest Posts by label widget in Blogger

In the Page Elements section, you can add a Latest posts widget / Gadget to your blog in Blogger. Just click Add a Gadget button, then choose Feed, and put your blog RSS feed in the box, and you have the latest posts widget in your blog.

You can also have a Latest posts with thumbnails and summaries widget by choosing Recent Posts Advanced in Featured section. But how you can get a Latest Posts by label widget? Below is an example of the Latest Posts by label widget;

Usually people put this kind of widget at the bottom of the page. The reason of putting a Latest Posts by label widget is to expose more recent topics by label / category to readers.

The way to create this widget is the same with to create a normal Latest Posts widget.

1. First go to Page Elements.
2. Click Add a Gadget.
3. Choose Feed widget.
4. Put your label feed URL in the box


How to get the label feed URLs?

1. Just look at the code below

http://www2.blogger.com/feeds/7918028117876789761/posts/default/-/Blogging%20tips

This is an example of my Blogging Tips label feed. How i got it? This is actually a hidden feature by Google. To change the above feed link to your own label feed link, just change the code in red

This is my Blogger BlogID = 7918028117876789761

You must change it to your own BlogID. How can you get it?

- Go to the Dashboard
- Click Edit Posts at your Blog name.
- Watch the URL link at the URL box above




- The image above is an example of my BlogID. Yours will be different numbers. So copy your BlogID to the code and replace it.

- And finally replace the label Blogging%20tips with your label. You now have your own label feed URL.

http://www2.blogger.com/feeds/Your_BlogID/posts/default/-/Your_Label

Or another more easier way is to copy your blog feed , example like below

http://perpustakaan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

and change it to

http://perpustakaan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/Funny

by adding a dash and your chosen label name at the end of the URL

and then

1. Go to Page Elements.

2. Click Add a Gadget.

3. Choose Feed widget.

4. Put your label feed URL in the box

Categories: Blogger Widget , Blogging tips