How To Add New Plug-In/Widget/Gadget To Blogger template

To make a blog user friendly, easy to navigate or just beautiful you can use thousands of cool blogger widget or gadget. You can show up any third party website content on your blog sidebar like photo slide show, blog list, flash video, social sharing options, news subscribe button etc. using a single blogger widget.

Blogger has some default widgets those will allow you to use some common features. Some of them could be already added in your blog template. If not, you can add a widgets from Google blogger widget store by following this direction..

Step 1: Log in to your blogger account using username and password. Once you logged in make sure that you are on your blogger Dashboard.

Step 2: Now navigate to the layout page and it will take you to the page where you can see, organize or manage your blogger blog page elements like widgets, scripts, etc. to add a new widget click on the following link indicating bellow.

Step 3: once you click on that link, a new window will pop-up/open. And take you to the blogger widget list page. Now find your widget or gadget by scrolling down the page and click add button.

Step 4: set preferences of your gadget or widget and hit save button. And finally Save new arrangements on your layout page.

Your page elements will be add to your page layout.

How to Add a Custom Blogger Widget/Gadget:

Except those widgets you have seen in blogger default widget list you can use any other custom third party blogger widget like Facebook/Twitter social plug-ins as like box, buttons, etc or self designed plug-ins using blogger HTML and Java Script widget.

The HTML and JavaScript widget can be found by clicking on "Add a Gadget" from the Blogger Layout screen(Step-2).