Add recent blog posts (titles) to another website?

October 30, 2006 6:51 PM

What is the best way to add summaries/titles of my recent blog posts (Blogger) to my personal website?

Looking for something small for the sidebar (like the "Recent posts" on the blog page). "Best" would be something that loads quickly and does not require extra software. Is there a solution through Blogger (I could not find one) or is something like a Google module rss reader a better solution?

posted by imposster to computers & internet (7 comments total)

You could always use the "Previous posts" feature that's part of a lot of the Blogger templates, but it sounds like you're looking for something different ... ?

For my photoblog's archives, I use the linkrolls at del.icio.us. I use my del.icio.us account to tag each post, and each tag becomes a category on the archives page. You can categorize them by date the same way, which is maybe what you're after.

I keep the archives on a site separate from my blog, but it seems like it'd work in a sidebar as well.
posted by diddlegnome at 7:13 PM on October 30, 2006

Yes, use something that uses the feed. There's probably a service out there that'll insert recent links from your feed in via JS? Definitely php out there that'll help.
posted by Firas at 7:28 PM on October 30, 2006

The answer is probably to use some sort of Javascript RSS tool in the page template of your personal site.
posted by Good Brain at 7:37 PM on October 30, 2006

Feed Digest is perfect for this, and is amazingly easy to setup. I've used this plenty of times before, and it works great.
posted by slhack3r at 7:52 PM on October 30, 2006

I use CaRP for that with a Blogger RSS feed, but that requires access to your webserver and learning some scripting. Gecko's Jawfish is a service using CaRP to generate javascript feeds.

If you don't mind it running off someone else's site, you can try the FeedDigest that slhack3r linked, or the similar sites like RSS-to-JS or Feed2JS.
posted by gemmy at 8:15 PM on October 30, 2006

I use CaRP too, but there's an opensource equivalent called Magpie RSS. Both cache, which I like, else each load of the summary page would mean a query to the originating feed.
posted by pzarquon at 11:35 PM on October 30, 2006

Thanks for all of the great answers. I ended up using Feed Digest. It was both free and easily configurable. I might dig deeper into Magpie RSS when I have some more time.
posted by imposster at 8:35 AM on October 31, 2006