Google Translate Widget with Flags For Blogger

The Google Translate Widget for Blogger allows the visitors to translate your site or blog in their own language.
This widget also auto-detect your blog language and then translate it to the readers chosen language.

It supports 12 different languages:
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic And Chinese.

How To Add The Google Translate Widget To Blogger

Step 1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard >> Layout and click on "Add A Gadget" link

Step 2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

 Step 3. Paste the code below in the empty box:

<script type="text/javascript">
function showHide(shID) {
    if (document.getElementById(shID)) {
        if (document.getElementById(shID+'-show').style.display != 'none') {
            document.getElementById(shID+'-show').style.display = 'none';
            document.getElementById(shID).style.display = 'block';
        }
        else {
            document.getElementById(shID+'-show').style.display = 'inline';
            document.getElementById(shID).style.display = 'none';
        }
    }
}
</script>

<style>

 .google_translate img {
margin: 10px 20px 0px 20px;
    height: 24px;
    width: 24px;
        }
        .google_translate:hover img {
filter:alpha(opacity=0.30);
        -moz-opacity: 0.30;
        opacity: 0.30;
        border:0;
        }

.more {
    display: none;
a.showLink, a.hideLink {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #0880C4;
    padding-left: 18px;
    background: transparent('down.gif') no-repeat left; }

a.hideLink {
    background: transparent url('up.gif') no-repeat left;
color: #0880C4;}

a.showLink:hover, a.hideLink:hover {
color: #0880C4;
 }

 </style>

 <div>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="English" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cen&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="English" border="0" align="absbottom" title="English" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRVPG-4-V155lsDs86oBfx87RopnmSTRGDAiIy_t-xb6n6GSasZD_Q2V5lIoi34PVg99swDvTWcEJ6YeMECKFD3SnDRCJjWJ9SQmrvpQrG9Kt65yojIgzqVVBrC5E76nScIU5M67dDTFQS/s1600/United+Kingdom(Great+Britain).png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="French" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cfr&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="French" border="0" align="absbottom" title="French" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPF0dXm70Q9ASkd-0uFbpSMVykUifNOasSAnFRBzuSoELjoJ5y_JQBfG2NuvaR_zdV0L5ukc112kaUcekDe9ORIrSMdqxqYa9_TyxydhskBLjl-7OedG8HxkhAJWiBEhEFmf3UYOiwnEGU/s1600/France.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="German" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cde&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="German" border="0" align="absbottom" title="German" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_rxfk6rmmDZN1JQSPHrzYMxaOfW2JK_b_qtgIDn8co2tucVSyE4DnP755JWvlhcxQvZ4Piz4IpGThK_qj-NKEdLUwXP1suBrxCbvA8A9WeilPaBmBilb_IdkyXnOF6vIpSRyOCfbPIEp/s1600/Germany.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Spain" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7ces&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Spain" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Spain" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9uRikDba9ruCQYgmTLGC4OIwU7qpx5uY0fe8V33jQ4RyHlPZzGHDnK2Z85FjmPoKgArKfc7XwotOJWbiaSzu0VjMEJPRg5eyxn-WTI1VweshjHCAlXupje9N7eCU2A965TdEI6CszYB1Y/s1600/Spain.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a><a href="#" id="example-show" class="showLink"
onclick="showHide('example');return false;">More</a>
<div id="example" class="more">
 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Italian" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cit&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Italian" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Italian" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoMoY1xfk9ePdqmtlUyuEt56MYj8L8zC5BGu_LsnjjBDLVH02gp12mhya07ecgHJKDX1YgQbyVHuYxQacauFSqsLzXririKyu4aFfy_Zdb6REKI2szhjnGVGob2PgiTPPlj3y3t1rcN8R/s1600/Italy.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Dutch" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cnl&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Dutch" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Dutch" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4_56uQUHiN8c4CB_ZkhImTBJJGuzKidTNQonJtN-yydrIt4yn4VdAhyvQ6zNxdUODgkUdng7QRMiVgGi-_L1upqC70UfZ14Uvjr7DlG6vIM_FVYFxjEimT8uke-pK8kSDZYERKElDtYUS/s1600/Netherlands.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>
      <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Russian" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cru&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Russian" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Russian" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjceK5pKlv5fTWJOWNJK3UGa45Sw_RJ7aCTP8j6EURpaj34WwR0Ucjbh9M1r42gEYuUNT8XZ8oLJftJkxMwaWEXXflR8iJM98JN29uIy6Kto3_-3muMDqJ2K1GfBoZ8G25YzH3PoNKjckli/s1600/Russian+Federation.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Portuguese" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cpt&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Portuguese" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Portuguese" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2EX0ZLWELp5cqRyJxa00XipvMkTKUQtRt7FyX6p6ziCrAA19fzWso4OpgGeMIEc3X816Zk45Mfk8Ide-XHAaaTrGfskQ79gR_O0GgPM6Jq510rwo9jaLWozXZczhUCsB7li4FDoE5MpF/s1600/Brazil.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>
<br />
 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Japanese" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cja&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Japanese" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Japanese" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAB31rUwtsVbCsPQlANL_7mnFf8bBkh8x-4ZjEn_Tv7geVX8pVlA9sTa_VTFwwAbVWEqGCitnfd8wpyaL93I774GWj5D5TVf8-GKXEWHrIwPBmqA_SP-xxugfTqq3wib4eH7NOlvr5m3xc/s1600/Japan.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Korean" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7cko&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Korean" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Korean" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIfWXsOY4gMtv3MUT53K8oF0p1cJiM2CdSkQlU5ZJFCAv-BxQbOjW_fxuRn3OY98cPL_evAcnj2-hyhSKvy1jG10P5a1vJJueY6BFVy_Ktv4M81EnEsqAyoBkifJMFI0zPZeBvCZwaSpBM/s1600/South+Korea.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Arabic" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7car&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Arabic" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Arabic" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbSz-QK5KZF3z9vqCCv-KdQR7Xl67jmjEylKF2wmkqHRHGtvk9FnP7rIV6Bz6JXExGFo31xlIMkf83hxZkNMRAjqzERrM6RT1fxqx3iln8a5-5-iH2Q3FF54ZLweeRvazuSN_HbbHnxuPy/s1600/Saudi+Arabia.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>

 <a class="google_translate" href="#" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Chinese Simplified" onclick="window.open('http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&langpair=auto%7czh-cn&hl=en'); return false;"><img alt="Chinese Simplified" border="0" align="absbottom" title="Chinese Simplified" height="24" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgew4FD1BwDvCQahqfcZ425g4L8DNrL12iVTAokhWGJ-xgDWqhbONBLAxzut3Kyi6793s_wE98yullPO8hvhLVNlphyFIEYf6NDjKaInWOmIKYoQujz6EkOz-6qxIbEVoq15sWqMk14uhlh/s1600/China.png" style="cursor: pointer;margin-right:8px" width="24"/></a>
    <p><a href="#" id="example-hide" class="hideLink"
    onclick="showHide('example');return false;">Hide / </a><a href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com"><font size="1px">Get this widget</font></a></p>
</div>
     </div>

Step 4. Now click on Save

And you're done! Enjoy (:

Simple Recent Posts Widget for Blogger/Blogspot

The main advantage on this Recent Posts widget is that it will show not only post titles but also post excerpts or snippets and it's easy to customize/ apply different style on it. To style it into your own design, you just have to modify the CSS style - you can change the link or background color, the size and color of text/links.

What you can do with this widget:

• display post titles only
• change the number of posts
• change the number of characters of the post snippet/excerpt
• show the post dates

See the screenshot below:

How to add Recent Posts Widget to Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, then go to Layout and click on Add a Gadget link

Step 2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

Step 3. Select & Copy the code from one of the options below and paste it into the new HTML/JavaScript:

Option 1: Recent posts widget with snippets

<div id="hlrpsa">
<script src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-snippets.js">
</script>
<script>
var numposts = 5;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;
</script>
<script src="http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=showrecentposts">
</script></div>
<div id="rpdr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">
<a href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2012/04/recent-posts-widget-for-bloggerblogspot.html" target="_blank" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com" title="Recent Posts Widget">Helplogger</a></div>
<noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>
<style type="text/css">
#hlrpsa a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCCRaxe_AdGRxQPvbmqlFl64EHdR6h5R1I3XD2jWlSmQRuPeD6L1eweuyyG5nnxVZlBVVVhiFNGBdDS5aSk-HKohXZkbOoGK5bNABvKj0uNKlyz8O9PdsCWVtkLwwG-eTiOpi5B-ZGjBw/s1600/blogger.png) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;}
#rpdr, #rpdr a {color:#808080;}
#hlrpsa { color: #999999; font-size: 11px; border-bottom:1px #cccccc dotted; margin-top:-10px; padding-bottom:10px;}
.hlrps a {font-weight:bold; }
.hlrpssumm {}
</style>

Option 2: Recent Posts Widget Showing Post Titles Only

<div id="hlrpsb">
<script style="text/javascript" src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-titles-only.js"></script>
<script style="text/javascript">var numposts = 10;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = false;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;</script>
<script src="http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"></script></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;" id="rpdr"><a href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2012/04/recent-posts-widget-for-bloggerblogspot.html" title="Grab this Recent Posts Widget" target="_blank">Recent Posts Widget</a> by <a href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com" title="Recent Posts Widget">Helplogger</a></div><noscript>Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.</noscript>
<style type=text/css>
#hlrpsb a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url( https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCCRaxe_AdGRxQPvbmqlFl64EHdR6h5R1I3XD2jWlSmQRuPeD6L1eweuyyG5nnxVZlBVVVhiFNGBdDS5aSk-HKohXZkbOoGK5bNABvKj0uNKlyz8O9PdsCWVtkLwwG-eTiOpi5B-ZGjBw/s1600/blogger.png ) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;}
#rpdr, #rpdr a {color:#808080;}
.bbrecpost2 {
padding-top:6px;
padding-bottom:6px;
border-bottom: 1px #cccccc dotted; }
</style>

Step 4.

• Change 5 (option 1) and 10 (option 2) with the number of posts you want to display. 
• Change false to true if you want the posts dates to appear 
• Change 100 (option 1) if you want more characters to be displayed.
• To change the color and font size of the links, modify the values in blue (links) and violet (font-size)
• To change the style of posts summary, modify the values in green (color) and orange (font size)
• Replace the your-blog text with the name of your blog or if you have a custom domain change all the bolded line with your address like in this example:

http://www.your-site.com/feeds/posts/default....

Step 5. Save your widget. And that's it! Enjoy!

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