Hongkiat Like Popular Post Widget For Bloggers

Hongkiat.com a very popular site among the designers, developers and bloggers. It was found in 2007 by Hongkiat Lim, who left his job in the same year and started working seriously on his site Hongkiat. And now after 7 years Hongkiat.com has become very popular among all the most popular and top designers sites, with alexa rank of #777.
Well! This site is popular among all the geeks and designers, as it constantly publishes articles on web-design, photoshop, artworks, inspirations, HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials.

But wait and think for a moment that how will it be if the popular posts widget used in Hongkiat.com can be designed same for the bloggers too?
Answer is yes! because you can get the customized popular posts designed by me specifically for blogspot users.

How To Add This Widget?

This hongkiat like popular posts widget can be added to your blog in few simple steps.

• Open Blogger dashboard → Layout → Add a gadget →  Add Popular Post Widget (Do not repeat if widget is already added)
• Now open Blogger dashboard → Template → Html editor
• Now add below given css code just before ]]></b:skin>

Css

.PopularPosts {
width:100%;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0!important;
border-radius: 2%;
-moz-border-radius: 2%;
-webkit-border-radius: 2%;
counter-reset: trackit;
box-shadow: 0px 4px 0px -2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1),0px 3px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07), 0px 2px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 4px 0px -2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1),0px 3px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07), 0px 2px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);
-webki-box-shadow: 0px 4px 0px -2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1),0px 3px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07), 0px 2px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);
border: 1px solid #EEE;
}

.PopularPosts h2 {line-height:1.5em!important;display: block!important;font-family: "Calibri","Droid Sans",Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-weight: 500!important;
text-transform: uppercase!important;padding: 5px 10px!important;margin: 0!important;color: #D1D9E5;background-color: #5A77A0!important;text-shadow: 1px 1px #486286;border-bottom: 1px solid #4D678C;
box-shadow: 0 5px 12px -7px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 5px 12px -7px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 5px 12px -7px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
font-size: 16px!important;
border-top-right-radius: 3px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 0;
border-bottom-left-radius: 0;
border-top-left-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 3px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 0;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 0;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 3px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px!important;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 0;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 0;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px;
bottom:0;
top:0;
}
.widget-content.popular-posts {border-top: 1px solid #CCC;padding: 0em;margin: 0 0 0;
}
.popular-posts ul{padding:0!important;margin:0!important;}
.popular-posts ul li {
border-bottom: 1px solid #f1f1f1;
list-style: none outside none !important;
margin-left: 0 !important;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 10px 0 !important;
transition: all 0.25s linear 0s;
counter-increment: trackit;}
#PopularPosts1 li:nth-child(odd) {background: #F9F9F9;}
#PopularPosts1 li:nth-child(even) {background: #FFF;}
#PopularPosts1 li:first-child {border-top: 1px solid #f1f1f1;}
#PopularPosts1 li {padding-right: 1em !important;padding-left: 1em !important;}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:before {content: counters(trackit,".");padding: 0 .1em 0 0;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;color: #D8D8D8;float: left;}
.PopularPosts .item-thumbnail,.PopularPosts .item-snippet {display: none;}
#PopularPosts1 a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
#PopularPosts1 a {color: #3F3F3F;font-size: .9rem;}
.PopularPosts .item-title {padding: 0 0 .2em 1.5em;}

• After adding the code save your template and preview the changes made in your widget.

Final Words

So friends what are your thoughts about this widget hacked from hongkiat. Don't forget to tell me your views and thoughts about this popular post widget in  the comment box below. Feel free and express your words, I am just waiting for it.