How To Add Stylish Random Posts Widget With Thumbnails In Blogger - PAKLeet

The Random Posts widget of Blogger will present random post from the blog on your sidebar or anywhere you intend to show the random post on blog. Random Posts Widget appears post with thumbnails and also show the comment value and link to it. Recent posts widget always show new posts whenever blog websites refreshed. Because of each and every time it’s accompany new content from the blog so its increase view count of your posts. Instead of Recent Posts widget, Random Posts widget shows all posts whether it is old or new, so it always keeps your old contents alive and improves your bounce rate. So lets start how to add this to your blogger blog.

How to Add?

Step 1. From your Blogger Dashboard, Go to Layout, click on Add a Gadget 

Step 2. Add a new HTML/JavaScript Gadget

Step 3. Paste the following code in the empty HTML box:

 <style>
#random-posts img{float:left;margin-right:10px;
width:65px;height:50px;background-color: #F5F5F5;padding: 3px;}
ul#random-posts {list-style-type: none;}
</style>

<ul id='random-posts'>
<script type='text/javaScript'>
var rdp_numposts=5;
var rdp_snippet_length=150;
var rdp_info='yes';
var rdp_comment='Comments';
var rdp_disable='Comments Disabled';
var rdp_current=[];var rdp_total_posts=0;var rdp_current=new Array(rdp_numposts);function totalposts(json){rdp_total_posts=json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t}document.write('<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&max-results=0&callback=totalposts\"><\/script>');function getvalue(){for(var i=0;i<rdp_numposts;i++){var found=false;var rndValue=get_random();for(var j=0;j<rdp_current.length;j++){if(rdp_current[j]==rndValue){found=true;break}};if(found){i--}else{rdp_current[i]=rndValue}}};function get_random(){var ranNum=1+Math.round(Math.random()*(rdp_total_posts-1));return ranNum};
</script>
<script type='text/javaScript'>
function random_posts(json){for(var i=0;i<rdp_numposts;i++){var entry=json.feed.entry[i];var rdp_posttitle=entry.title.$t;if('content'in entry){var rdp_get_snippet=entry.content.$t}else{if('summary'in entry){var rdp_get_snippet=entry.summary.$t}else{var rdp_get_snippet="";}};rdp_get_snippet=rdp_get_snippet.replace(/<[^>]*>/g,"");if(rdp_get_snippet.length<rdp_snippet_length){var rdp_snippet=rdp_get_snippet}else{rdp_get_snippet=rdp_get_snippet.substring(0,rdp_snippet_length);var space=rdp_get_snippet.lastIndexOf(" ");rdp_snippet=rdp_get_snippet.substring(0,space)+"&#133;";};for(var j=0;j<entry.link.length;j++){if('thr$total'in entry){var rdp_commentsNum=entry.thr$total.$t+' '+rdp_comment}else{rdp_commentsNum=rdp_disable};if(entry.link[j].rel=='alternate'){var rdp_posturl=entry.link[j].href;var rdp_postdate=entry.published.$t;if('media$thumbnail'in entry){var rdp_thumb=entry.media$thumbnail.url}else{rdp_thumb="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIeJfms9eyDdsQjUchrdKRx8SNPw-FhJxtq95Sgq3ejYcbllqXsMlGE9o82GdeEKj2I1Wkt7RPgqni35a23fi87ROneL7gksmAuiadQHKiOu2qm6CxVOUhS2Tv7yfjzDtCmy_ZBHOsUg/s1600/no_thumb.png"}}};document.write('<li>');document.write('<img alt="'+rdp_posttitle+'" src="'+rdp_thumb+'"/>');document.write('<div><a href="'+rdp_posturl+'" rel="nofollow" title="'+rdp_snippet+'">'+rdp_posttitle+'</a></div>');if(rdp_info=='yes'){document.write('<span>'+rdp_postdate.substring(8,10)+'/'+rdp_postdate.substring(5,7)+'/'+rdp_postdate.substring(0,4)+' - '+rdp_commentsNum)+'</span>'}document.write('<div style="clear:both"></div></li>')}};getvalue();for(var i=0;i<rdp_numposts;i++){document.write('<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&start-index='+rdp_current[i]+'&max-results=1&callback=random_posts\"><\/script>')};
</script>
</ul>

Replace 5 with the number of posts you want to be show.
For bigger thumbnails, change the pixels in red from width:65px;height:50px; 

Step 4. Press Save and you're done! Enjoy!

Final Touches:

I hope you successfully added Random posts widget to your blog as it is not a very long or complex process. But still if you face any difficulty shoot me a comment below till then Happy Adding.