Adding recent comments widget in your Blogger blog will show the activeness of your blog. Once a reader finds a recent comments widget in your blog’s sidebar, he comes to know that you blog is pretty active and that encourages him to post comments on your blog. In this way you can gather some active user base to comment on your blog posts.

Follow these steps to add the recent comments widget in your Blogger (Blogspot) blog.

Step 1 :

Log into Blogger. Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Design/Layout > Page Element > Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript





Step 2 :

Copy and paste the code below:

<script style=text/javascript src=http://www.webaholic.co.in/other/recent-comments-widget.js></script><script style=text/javascript >var a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var o_rc=100;</script><script src=http://YOUR-BLOG-URL.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments ></script><span id=rcw-cr><a href=http://www.blogger.webaholic.co.in/2011/03/recent-comments-widget-for-blogger.html>Recent Comments Widget</a></span><style type=text/css> .rcw-comments a {text-transform: capitalize;} .rcw-comments {border-bottom: 1px dotted; padding-top: 7px!important; padding-bottom: 7px!important;} #rcw-cr {font-family: Arial,Tahoma;font-size:9px;padding-top:7px;display:block;} </style>

Step 3 :
 
Change YOUR-BLOG-URL with your blog url.


Step 4 :

Save the template.

You might have noticed the Top Commentators Widget in blogs powered by WordPress. Sometimes, it is referred to as Best Commentators Widget. Now you can also reward your top commentators by displaying their names with clickable links on your Blogger blog and helps you to see who comments on your blog more frequently.

The "Top Commentators Widget for Blogger" has some additional features.

• This allows you to filter out the blog author's name from the top commentators list.
• It also counts number of comments by unique profile id.

Follow these simple steps to add the top commentators widget in your Blogger / Blogspot blog.


Step 1 :

Log into Blogger. Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Design/Layout > Page Element > Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript







Step 2 :


Copy and paste the code below:

<script type="text/javascript"> function pipeCallback(obj) { document.write('<ol>'); var i; for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i++) { var href = "'" + obj.value.items[i].link + "'"; if(obj.value.items[i].link == "") var item ="<li>" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</li>"; else var item = "<li>" + "<a href=" + href + ">" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</a> </li>"; document.write(item); } document.write('</ol>'); } </script> <script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback& _id=7b5e76fd684f11e94320abd4e00fbbca&url=http%3A%2F%2FYOUR-BLOG-URL&num=5&filter=Anonymous" type="text/javascript"></script> <br/><small><a style="align:left;" href='http://www.blogger.webaholic.co.in/2011/07/top-commentators-widget-for-blogger.html'>Top Commentators Widget</a> | <a style="align:left;" href='http://www.webaholic.co.in/'>Webaholic</a></small>

Step 3 :
 
Change YOUR-BLOG-URL with your blog url. Don't include www.


Step 4 :

Save the template.


Customizations :
num=5

Shows the number of comments in the list. You can change the number accordingly.
filter=Anonymous

Filters Anonymous comments from the Top Commentators Widget. You can add your name (blog author) here to keep yourself out of the top commentators list.