One of the best features of blog platforms is that they’re so customisable. Through plugins and widgets, you can easily add handy sharing capabilities, lists of recent posts, a live Twitter feed, whatever you like — adapting your design to your needs, setting it apart from the competition and making it distinct.
Here’s a look at some of the coolest Blogger widgets out there, to help you spice up your blog with the features that are right for you.
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Facebook Fan Page Badge
Advertise your Facebook
fan page directly on your blog through the handy badge widget from
Facebook. It creates an image with your logo, name and number of fans
which links back to your Facebook page.
Floating Facebook Twitter Counters
This
floating widget encourages blog readers to share your content on social
networks. Customisations allow you to change the alignment and/or add
more buttons for additional networks.
Popular Posts
Attract
more eyes to the posts that are already drawing conversation. This
widget gives you the ability to display a list of your ten most
commented-on posts.
Random Posts
This widget displays a list
of random posts from your blog and can be configured to your
specifications in terms of colours, size, font, etc.
Recent Posts
Similar
to the random posts widget, this tool displays your most recently
published posts and can be fully customized to your style.
Recommended Post Slide-Out
Modeled
after a popular feature at major sites like the New York Times,
Mashable and others, this widget creates a slide-out that shows random
posts from you blog. Beneath “recommended for you,” the slide-out
entices readers to click through to more content.
Related Posts by LinkWithin
Draw
readers deeper within your site through LinkWithin’s handy related
posts plugin. It creates thumbnail links beneath every post, linking to
related content within your archives.
Retweet Button
Make it
easy for readers to share your content on Twitter through the Retweet
Button widget, which not only allows them to share in a single click but
also tracks how many times a post has been shared.
ShareThis
One
of the most popular sharing tools not just on Blogger but also on
WordPress, Drupal, Typepad and various other blog platforms, ShareThis
adapts to any screen, whether PC, mobile or tablet.
Top Authors
For
blogs with multiple authors, the Top Authors widget can be handy, as it
lists all blog authors with the number of posts they’ve contributed.
This can be a powerful way to reward top posters and draw readers into
more of your site.
Twitter
Integrate your Twitter stream with your blog through this plugin that lets you customize how many of your recent posts display.
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