Tuesday, 10 May 2016

How to list recent post titles by label (without thumbnail)



Do you want to list all or your most recent posts according to categories/labels? Well then, you’ve come to the right tutorial.
I’ve seen people use a LinkList gadget to accomplish this. However this method requires them to MANUALLY add each post link to the gadget every time they publish a post with the specified label. Not good.

We’re not going to do that, because we have a better, more elegant solution. Once added, the list will update itself automatically. The widget takes your blog’s label-specific feed, in JSON format and turn it into a list using Javascript. It other words it does the listing for you.
No more slow and tedious manual updating and rearranging. Sounds good? Here we go:

1. Installing the first list

  1. Go to Layout 
  2. Click Add A Gadget.
  3. In Add A Gadget window, select HTML/Javascript .
  4. Enter a label as the title of your widget.
  5. Copy the code below and paste it inside the content box.
  6. Click Save.


<!-- Recent Posts by Label Start -->


<script type="text/javascript">
function recentpostslist(json) {
 document.write('<ul>');
 for (var i = 0; i < json.feed.entry.length; i++)
 {
    for (var j = 0; j < json.feed.entry[i].link.length; j++) {
      if (json.feed.entry[i].link[j].rel == 'alternate') {
        break;
      }
    }
var entryUrl = "'" + json.feed.entry[i].link[j].href + "'";//bs
var entryTitle = json.feed.entry[i].title.$t;
var item = "<li>" + "<a href="+ entryUrl + '" target="_blank">' + entryTitle + "</a> </li>";
 document.write(item);
 }
 document.write('</ul>');
 }
</script>
<script src="YOUR_BLOG_URL/feeds/posts/summary/-/YOUR_LABEL?max-results=SHOW_HOW_MANY&alt=json-in-script&callback=recentpostslist"></script>
<span style="font-size: 80%; float:right;">Get this <a href="https://techglab.blogspot.in/2016/05/how-to-list-recent-post-titles-by-label.html">widget</a></span>

<!-- Recent Posts by Label End -->


  • Replace YOUR_BLOG_URL in code with your own blog URL. For example if you were to list posts from BloggerSentral.com, you would have to replace it with https://techglab.blogspot.com (without the trailing slash).
  • Replace YOUR_LABEL with the label. Labels are case sensitive, make sure you get it right.
  • Replace the value of SHOW_HOW_MANY  with the number of posts you want to display. To show all posts, use 500 (I believe 500 is the maximum. If you have more than 500 posts under a certain label, do leave a comment, we’ll work something out).
  • The titles are bulleted due the use of ordered list <ul>. If you want them numbered instead, just replace ul with ol.

2. Adding subsequent lists

You need to add a HTML/Javascript gadget for each label. Repeat the same steps above for each label, with a slight difference:

  • You don’t have to copy the whole code. Just copy the codes in lines 21 and 22 into each gadget.
  • Make sure your first list (which contains the full code) is positioned on top of all other lists.
To list recent post titles by label with thumbnails : Check This

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