The main features of this recent comments widget are as follows:

Get the script at GitHub:

›› https://gist.github.com/vinayprajapati/4956310

Recent comments for Blogger script possible customizations

numRecentComments: Number of comments to display in the widget numPerPost: Maximum number of comments per post to prevent a flood from a single post maxCommentChars: Number of characters of reader’s comment to show in the widget maxPostTitleChars: Set the length of a post title or set 0 if you want to display the full title txtWrote: Customize ‘wrote’ word as per your choice txtMore: If a comment is longer then a customized ‘Continue ››’ message will appear you can change it. txtToolTip: A text to display when you hover at the name of the commentator txtAnonymous: If your language is English then nothing to change else write custom synonyms for Anonymous in your language getTitles: if set true, fetch titles from post feed and if set false then titles are generated from a permalink trueAvatars: if set true, uses Blogger profile images from comment feed else Blogger default favicon maxResultsPosts: Let it be empty or for example “&max-results=100” where 100 is the number of posts to get from posts feed to get post titles maxResultsComments: Let it be empty or for example “&max-results=300” where 300 is a number of comments to get from comments feed sizeAvatar: You can define the avatar size default is 32px. It is better to choose avatar size in multiples of 8 i.e. 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56…

More important if you want to show the blog author’s own comments and replies in this widget you can refer “MS-potilas” old script. ›› https://gist.github.com/vinayprajapati/4956108 For this you can also configure two more variables in this script:

urlMyAvatar: Leave it as it is if want to display default profile avatar else define image link for a custom avatar urlMyProfile: Leave it as it is if want to display default profile URL else define custom profile URL i.e. Facebook, Google+, Twitter or others

How to use any of these scripts on my blog?

Simple, add an HTML/Javascript gadget, paste this script in that and Save the gadget. You’re done! You can easily drag this gadget to the desired position in the sidebar. ›› Blogger Dashboard ›› Layout ›› Add a gadget ›› Add an HTML/Javascript gadget ›› Paste code ›› Save gadget ›› Done.

Bug fix:

If you are using an older version of internet explorer 7 or 8 and have a problem with this widget then you can change following meta tag given below in Blogger template. Find this line somewhere belowand change this line with the following code: Please leave a comment to have something to say or share with us.

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