How to use Blog List gadget in Blogger.
Attention: The Blog List gadget is half broken. After reading this, can you help me report it to Blogger team using the Send feedback button on blog dashboard? Briefly describe what's broken and maybe send them a link to this post. Thanks!
Blog List is a gadget for displaying a list of links to another blogs that you follow or recommend. But more than that, it can display the latest post feed from each blog.
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| Blogger Blog List gadget. |
Here's the gadget configuration dialogue:
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| Blog List gadget settings. |
It takes a blog feed URL and retrieve the first entry from the feed. It says it's a live view of the blogs, but in reality it displays a cached feed entry. So it takes a while to reflect any updates from the blogs.
Add A New Item
Blogger will suggest blogs from your Reading List. If you choose one from the list, it will fill the next input with the URL of the blog. Which is nice, but it won't work, because that's not a blog feed URL.
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| Blog List gadget input dialogue. |
A valid blog feed URL looks like this:
http://xmlexpr.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/defaultHowever, if you enter the blog URL manually and click Save, Blogger will try to detect the feed URL, and if it found one, you'll get the following dialogue:
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| Blog List gadget "Feed URL found" dialogue. |
This is the URL that you want. Keep the default option and press OK, then save the item.
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