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Multicolored Popular Posts Widget for Blogger

Monday, December 16, 2013

Popular Posts Widget is a Widget providing by Blogger and we can add it to our Blog. This Widget displays the Most viewed posts of your blog. We can select how Popular posts are to be displayed. By default it shows an thumbnail and title of post followed by the summery of content. Today we are going to learn how to style that Popular posts Widget to an Awesome Multicolored Popular Posts Widget. This trick is done using simple CSS3 rather than using complex JavaScripts. A great feature of this trick is each Post shown in each Flat UI color, so these colors catches your Blog visitor's eyes and they have the tendency to take that post even if the Post is not so good.


  • First Add Popular post Widget to Blogger
    • Go to Layout> Select "Add a Gadget" and take Popular Posts Widget from the Widget List
    • Give title of widget, select how the popular posts should be appeared (in Month,or Week or All time) and click Save 
  • Go to Template> Edit HTML, Find ( Ctrl + F ) ]]></b:skin>
  • Copy the following code and Paste just above it
 <!-- Popular posts multi colored UI theme --> 
 #PopularPosts1 ul{margin:0;padding:5px 0;list-style-type:none} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li{position:relative;margin:5px 0;border:0;padding:10px} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child{background:#ff4c54;width:97%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child:after{content:"1"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li{background:#ff764c;width:87%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li:after{content:"2"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li{background:#ffde4c;width:84%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li:after{content:"3"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li{background:#c7f25f;width:81%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after{content:"4"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li{background:#33c9f7;width:78%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after{content:"5"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li +li{background:#7ee3c7;width:75%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"6"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li +li{background:#f6993d;width:72%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"7"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li +li{background:#f59095;width:69%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"8"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li +li{background:#c7f25f;width:66%} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{content:"9"} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after, 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after{position:absolute;top:20px;right:-15px;border-radius:50%;background:#353535;width:30px;height:30px;text-align:center;font-size:28px;color:#fff} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li .item-thumbnail{float:left;border:0;margin-right:10px;background:transparent;padding:0;width:70px;height:70px;} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li a{font-size:13px;color:#444;text-decoration:none} 
 #PopularPosts1 ul li a:hover{color:#222;text-decoration:none} 
 #PopularPosts1 img{ 
 -moz-border-radius: 130px; 
 -webkit-border-radius: 130px; 
 border-radius: 130px; 
 -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease; 
 -moz-transition: all 0.3s ease; 
 transition: all 0.3s ease; 
 padding:4px; 
 border:1px solid #fff !important; 
 } 
 #PopularPosts1 img:hover { 
 border-radius: 0 0 0 0; 
 -moz-transform: scale(1.2) rotate(-711deg) ; 
 -webkit-transform: scale(1.2) rotate(-711deg) ; 
 -o-transform: scale(1.2) rotate(-711deg) ; 
 -ms-transform: scale(1.2) rotate(-711deg) ; 
 transform: scale(1.2) rotate(-711deg) ; 
 } 
 <!-- popular posts multicolored UI theme --> 
  • Click on Preview Template (You can see the template without saving)
  • Save the Template

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