Add a Recent Post with Thumbnail in your Blog

I’ve seen several blogs with a recent post section in their sidebar but there’s only a few of them who has a thumbnail with the title and description of their post. I’ve searched several articles on how to add a recent post with thumbnail in a blog with a help of a plugin(wordpress) and a gadget(blogger) but they don’t work well when implemented in some of the latest platforms. It also requires you to tinker with the underlying code so it could mess up for some reason if you haven’t followed the instructions well. The good thing is I found a very simple solution of adding a recent post with thumbnail without having any difficulty of adding it in your blog

The very first thing that you should do is to signup for a netvibes account. Once you have an account go to netvibes ecosystem and sign in using the account your made before.

When you login click the “Create and Submit” button at the navigation menu and click “Create Widget“. There are two options out there and what we need is the first one, so click “Create a Blog News Widget“.Enter your Blog Feed address in the form given or just type the url of your blog and netvibes will find the blog feed for you. After filling the feed address fill up the necessary information and accept the Terms and Agreement. Now, you will be given a permanent URL for the widget you made. Copy and save it in your email or in your hard disk. I haven’t find a way to recover it so you have to make a backup of it. Click the permanent URL and you’ll be redirected to your made widget. Now look for the “Share” link in your page and click it. Now customized it the way you want, remember to check the “Show more details” box since this will enable the thumbnails. Click the Update Preview and Grab/Copy the Widget Code.

Now all you have to do is to add the code in your blog. If you’re a wordpress user, go to your dashboard and add the “Text Widget” in your widgetized sidebar. Paste the code in there and save it. If you are using blogspot platform, Add a gadget and choose “HTML/JAVASCRIPT” and paste it there. You now have a working Recent post with thumbnail in your blog.