Latest Posts display in sidebar

Do you miss the Previous posts section after migrating to Beta? As you might remember, classic Blogger used to show previous 10 posts in any page. When somebody visits your latest blog post following a link from another blog, he had a chance to look at the titles of previous posts and read them if he likes. Good news is that it is still possible with Beta to display upto 5 latest posts from your blog in your sidebar. Here's what you need to do.

Blogger Beta supports showing items from any feed as a page element. So, you could show the post titles from your blog's feed in your blog itself! The URL of your blog's feed is
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full.
Goto your dashboard, Template->Page Elements and click "Add a Page element". Choose the Feed element and provide the URL that you collected in previous step. In "Configure feed" window, give an appropriate title (I gave "Latest Posts"). Save the changes and drag/drop your new element to wherever you want.

By the way, I am working on getting my pre-Beta hacks to work with Beta blogs. If you are new to my blog, you can expect a few more hack announcements in the coming days. If you would like to have a peek at my pre-Beta hacks, check out "Goodies to promote your blog" and "Related posts from your blog".