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Awesome Multi Coloured Random Posts Widget

multi colour random posts widget for bloggerHere comes another must have widget. This is a random posts widget that’s made colourful. LOL. Simply a cool widget.
Random posts widgets helps you to get good seo by keeping visitors engaged in reading more and more posts. It’s because each time you reload a page you'll get different posts in this widget. That was a simple description of random posts. That wasn't funny. Smile with tongue out

Now what i am sharing with you is a highly customized version of simple random posts widget. A more attractive random posts widget, that’ll surely double your page views. Believe me if you’ve good content. This one has flat ui colouring and has auto post numbering too. So this is one hell of a widget.

Adding Multi Colour Random Post Widget

  • Navigate to Blogger Dashboard > Layout
  • Now click on Add a gadget > HTML/JavaScript
  • Copy the below code into it and save the widget.
<style type="text/css">
.noop-random-posts ul li {
    list-style-image:none;
}.noop-random-posts ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 5px 0;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li {
border: 0 none;
margin: 5px 0;
padding: 10px;
position: relative;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FF4C54;
width: 97%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child:after {
content: "1";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FF764C;
width: 87%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li:after {
content: "2";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFDE4C;
width: 84%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li:after {
content: "3";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #C7F25F;
width: 81%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after {
content: "4";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #33C9F7;
width: 78%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after {
content: "5";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #7EE3C7;
width: 75%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after {
content: "6";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #F6993D;
width: 72%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after {
content: "7";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #F59095;
width: 69%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after {
content: "8";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #C7F25F;
width: 66%;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after {
content: "9";
}
.noop-random-posts ul li:first-child:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after, .noop-random-posts ul li:first-child + li + li + li + li + li + li + li + li:after {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #353535;
border-radius: 50% 50% 50% 50%;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 25px;
height: 30px;
position: absolute;
right: -17px;
text-align: center;
top: 1px;
width: 30px;
}
.noop-random-posts ul li a {
color: #444444;
font-size: 13px;
text-decoration: none;
}
</style>
<div class="noop-random-posts"><script type="text/javascript">
    var randarray = new Array();var l=0;var flag;
    var numofpost=5;function nooprandomposts(json){
    var total = parseInt(json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t,10);
    for(i=0;i < numofpost;){flag=0;randarray.length=numofpost;l=Math.floor(Math.random()*total);for(j in randarray){if(l==randarray[j]){ flag=1;}}
    if(flag==0&&l!=0){randarray[i++]=l;}}document.write('<ul>');
    for(n in randarray){ var p=randarray[n];var entry=json.feed.entry[p-1];
    for(k=0; k < entry.link.length; k++){if(entry.link[k].rel=='alternate'){var item = "<li>" + "<a href=" + entry.link[k].href + ">" + entry.title.$t + "</a> </li>";
    document.write(item);}}
    }document.write('</ul>');}
    </script><a href="http://www.bloggslab.com" style="font-size:0pt">Blogger Widgets</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&start-index=1&max-results=1000&callback=nooprandomposts"></script></div>
Now check out your blog see the random posts widget working perfectly. If you have any trouble adding this widget, let me know.

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