Got some worth mentioning posts in your Blogger blog, and want to represent them with style here I am presenting to you a high end very popular featured post/content slider for your Homepage. Featured post sliders are seen in many blogs because they create a very good impression about your site and also increase the beauty of landing page, as well as they reduce bounce rate. And speaking of Featured post slider I personally like Coin Slider very much and recently I integrated it to Blogger blogs. I like Coin Slider because it has many advantages like:
Live Demo: Click Here
Codes for copy:
Adding this widget
- Unique transition effects
- Valid markup
- Flexible configuration
- Auto slide
- Navigation box
- Lightweight (8kb only)
- Linking images
- Fully customizable using CSS
- Compatible with Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Google Chrome 3+, Opera 9+
- Free to use under MIT license
- Compatible with Android and iPhone
Add featured post slider in Blogger (homepage)
Live Demo: Click Here
Codes for copy:
Adding this widget
- First log into Blogger, select your blog,
- Go to ‘Layout’ tab and click ‘add a gadget’ from the below space of header
- Select ‘HTML/JavaScript’ from pop up page;
- Copy and paste given codes in content box, configure and Save
- Now hit ‘View blog’ and hover mouse on slider widget’s editing icon wrench;
- And look bottom of web browser and you will see a line, that contains Widget ID;
- Detect your widget id it generally looks like (HTML1, HTML2, HTML3, Blog1) see image below;
- Then, go to ‘Template’ tab, ‘Edit HTML’ and search for your widget ID (using Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) into code snippet;
- You will see chunks of codes starts with <b:section and ends with </b:section>
- Identify them and place this line (see image) Before the codes chunk
- and at the end of code this line
- And Save template.
- In "post link" place your links and add your post title in ‘place text’
- In "image link" place your image link, you can host image on Blogger; just upload you image; preview them and from address bar copy image’s direct code and place them in Image link; otherwise use Tinypic-Upload your image; then copy links from ‘direct links for layout’. You should use images size of 800px width and 400px height bigger size will be scaled into this size.
- You can delete a slide content by deleting <a> to </a>
- You can add more slide by coping <a> to </a>
- You can also change the default image size by changing value of height and width in case you will have change all height width values.