Add 2 Stylish Custom Popular Posts Widget To Blogger

Popular posts is most commonly used widget in every blog.Blogger has its own popular posts widget but it is not much attraction and effect your whole template.But the good thing about that widget is that it can be easily customized using CSS.So, in this post we will discuss 2 styles for customizing popular posts in blogger.

Follow these steps to customize popular posts widget:-

Adding Popular Posts Widget To Blogger

Step 1. Add the default popular posts widget by blogger to your blog :-
Step 2. Go to Blogger Dashboard >> Layout >>Add A Gadget >> Select Popular Posts Widget From The List >> And hit the Save button.
Now to customize the popular post widget Follow the following steps :

Select Template Option

Click on Edit HTML

Search (Ctrl + F) for ]]></b:skin

Just Above It Paste One Of The Following Popular Posts Widget

Style 1 :

.popular-posts ul{padding-left:0px;}
    .popular-posts ul li {
    list-style-type: none;
    margin:0 0 5px 0px;
    padding:5px 5px 5px 20px !important;
    border: 1px solid #dddddd;
           -moz-box-shadow:1px 1px 2px #dcdcdc;
-web-kit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #dcdcdc;
-goog-ms-box-shadow:1px 1px 2px #dcdcdc;
box-shadow:1px 1px 2px #dcdcdc;
border-radius:5px;
background: rgb(44,83,158); /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(44,83,158,1) 0%, rgba(44,83,158,1) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(44,83,158,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(44,83,158,1))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(44,83,158,1) 0%,rgba(44,83,158,1) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(44,83,158,1) 0%,rgba(44,83,158,1) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(44,83,158,1) 0%,rgba(44,83,158,1) 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(44,83,158,1) 0%,rgba(44,83,158,1) 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#2c539e', endColorstr='#2c539e',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
    }

    .popular-posts ul li:hover {
      -moz-box-shadow:1px 1px 2px #dcdcdc;
-web-kit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #dcdcdc;
-goog-ms-box-shadow:1px 1px 2px #dcdcdc;
box-shadow:2px 2px 4px #333333;
    border:1px solid #333333;
color:#fff;
    }

.popular-posts ul li a
{
text-decoration:none;
font:16px Georgia, verdana;
color:#ffffff;
}
    .popular-posts ul li a:hover {
    text-decoration:none;

    }

Style 2 :

.popular-posts ul{padding-left:0px;}
    .popular-posts ul li {background: #ffffff no-repeat scroll 5px 10px;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin:0 0 5px 0px;
    padding:5px 5px 5px 20px !important;
    border: 1px solid #dddddd;
    border-radius:7px;
    -moz-border-radius:7px;
    -webkit-border-radius:7px;
    }
    .popular-posts ul li:hover {
        border:1px solid #555555;
    }

.popular-posts ul li a
{
text-decoration:none;
font:16px Georgia, verdana;
color:#333333;
}
    .popular-posts ul li a:hover {
    text-decoration:none;
    color:#555555;
    }