Blogspot Widget: Show Total Posts & Comments

Posted by Bilal at Friday, July 24, 2009 7 comments

You might have noticed that some Blogger blogs have widget installed in the sidebar which displays total posts and comments of that blog. Well, you can also install such a widget in your blog as well. A simple script allows us to show off total posts and comments on our blog.

Steps

Just go to Layout | Page Elements and click Add a Gadget link in your sidebar where you want to add this widget. When a new window is opened, chose HTML/JavaScript as your widget and add the following code in the Content field.

<script style="text/javascript">

function numberOfPosts(json) {

document.write('Posts: <b>' + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + '</b><br>');

}

function numberOfComments(json) {

document.write('Comments: <b>' + json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t + '</b><br>');

}

</script>

<font color="blue"><script src="http://bloggerfaqs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfPosts"></script>

<script src="http://bloggerfaqs.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=numberOfComments"></script></font>