Make recent comments appear in your blogs sidebar

Comments are the best way to know whether your post has been successful or not.

More comments you get,more the post has reached your audience.It also gives the scope to make any changes had anything gone wrong in your post before by seeing the comments.

Now if we come to the point of talk,first go to template then click edit HTML.(I’m talkin about blogger,blogspot blogs)

Find the closing head tag i.e.,  </head>

Now add the following code just before the closing head tag.

<script type=’text/javascript’> function commentDisplay(json) { for (var i = 0; i &lt; numcomments; i++) { var entry = json.feed.entry[i]; var alturl; if (i == json.feed.entry.length) break; for (var k = 0; k &lt; entry.link.length; k++) { if (entry.link[k].rel == ‘alternate’) { alturl = entry.link[k].href; break; } } alturl = alturl.replace(”#”, “#comment-”); if (entry.content) { comment = entry.content.$t; } else if (entry.summary) { comment = entry.summary.$t; } var re = /&lt;\S[^&gt;]*&gt;/g; comment = comment.replace(re, “”); document.write(’&lt;a href=”‘ + alturl + ‘”&gt;’ + entry.author[0].name.$t + ‘&lt;/a&gt; commented:&lt;br/&gt;’); if (comment.length &lt; numchars) document.write(comment + ‘&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;’); else document.write(comment.substring(0, numchars) + ‘…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;’); } } </script>

Save your template for the moment.Go to page elements and click on any add a page element(gadget).

Click on text/html button and ad the following script.

<br/><script language=”javascript”>

var numcomments = 10;

var numchars = 100;

</script>

<script src=”http://sriraj46.wordpress.com/?feed=atom

alt=json-in-script&callback=commentDisplay”></script>

Here sriraj46 is the name of my blog and hence replace it with your blog.Suppose you blogname is xyz then replace that with   xyz.blogspot.com/posts/feeds/default.

thats it.Save it and view your blog.

Here 10 represents the number of comments and 100 is the character count in each comment.You can change it to a number of your liking.

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