We have been covering the developments related to blogspot blogs and some of the recent changes including template designer and spam comment filtering, both of which were an effort to make it competitive with the self-hosted blogs. Giving yet another reason to blogspot users to rejoice, Blogger has introduced additional gadgets!
Gadgets functionality give the blogger users another reason to love it because anyone without a even a hint of coding languages can use it to add additional features to the existing template, without any tweaks!
Blog Stats and Popular Posts Gadget for Blogger
Few months ago, blogger came up with stat monitoring feature that allows you to analyze visitor stats in real-time. Stepping up the feature, blogger now allows your to exclude your own pageviews from the stats, resulting in more accurate stats!
Also, you can brag about your blog’s stats with the new official stats gadget on blogger. The Blog’s stats gadget displays total pageviews of your blog. It is similar to those stats counter, where can choose from various options to display the gadget in different styles.
Popular Posts in Blogger
If you have been using some external websites to display the list of popular posts, then you must have noticed the amount of time it takes to load. Replace them now, with the Popular Posts gadget that is as flexible as you want it to be. Add thumbnail image and snippet with the post titles that are popular on your blog from a week, a month or all time!
To access the new gadgets, head over to: Design >> Page Elements, and click on Add a gadget.
[via: Blogger Buzz, Blogger in Draft]
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