Reactions Blogger Widget, a mini-poll for your blog
This entry was posted by nhc on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pm. It is filed under Blogger Widgets and tagged with blogger, blogger widget, news.
Another excellent Blogger feature has been added to Blogger blog for everyone recently after the release of Blogger embedded comment form: Reactions. This widget acts like a mini-poll beneath each of your blog posts and offers the ability for readers to leave feedback quickly.
How to add “Reactions” to your Blogger template
To add this new function to your Blogger layout, you will need to do some simple steps to activate it. Once logged in to your Blogger dashboard, go to Layout -> Page Elements and click the “Edit” link for the “Blog Posts” widget. In the pop-up window, you will see the option to add “Reactions” to your posts:
Tick the check box and edit the labels for your buttons by clicking on the link “Edit” nearby if you want. Then finally save this setting.
Adding the code to your template
Unfortunately, setting up this feature doesn’t simple as Blogger comment form, you need to add some lines of code to your template.
If you are using a default Blogger template with no modifications to widgets or the post layout, nothing more to do because the code is added.
If you are using a customized Blogger template, you will need to add the required code to your template manually. In this case, go to Layout -> Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard. Make sure the check box “Expand widget templates” is checked. Next, search for the following line of code:
<data:post.body/>
Immediately after this line, add the following section of code:
<span class='reaction-buttons'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showReactions'>
<table border='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><tr>
<td valign='center'><span class='reactions-label'>
<data:top.reactionsLabel/></span>
</td>
<td><iframe allowtransparency='true' class='reactions-iframe' expr:src='data:post.reactionsUrl' frameborder='0' name='reactions' scrolling='no'/></td>
</tr></table>
</b:if>
</span>
Preview your template to see the “Reactions” add-on appear beneath each of your blog posts, and finally, save this new addition to your template.
That’s it 
If you want a demo page for this feature, head over to ThemeLib demo page and test it by voting on the post.
Please let me know if there’s any problems with you when adding this feature by leaving your comments below.
Btw, have a nice weekend, folks 
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I think is one of the most non popular widget from Blogger..Nobody uses it(since I have not seen it working anywhere)..And earlier it was having some issues also that the reaction number also was not increasing so many bloggers who were using removed the code and never thought for it.
By the way the logo which you have changed is not looking sexy like before and I m seeing lot’s of modification in your template daily.Good Job!
What do you mean when saying a logo is “sexy”?
lol
Nice sharing for Blogger, hope Blogger can increase its gadget and functionality as well to compete with Wordpress (oh!?)
By the way, did you plan to change your theme to Revolution one?
No, I love Arthemia theme
Unexpected but respected reply
i knew it. that’s why i love blogger
I never use it before in my blogger.
Hey “cool” post. I have been playing with a few different types of poll widgets and this seems pretty neat. Thanks for the heads up and for showing how to use it to.
Thanks! Blogger’s help isn’t helping, so this is great. Got it to work nicely!
I’ve just started on Blogger and leaning as I go. What’s better with WordPress?
Thanks again,
SteveO
I like this info but when I tried to place it where stated, it ended up over my ’slammed down by Di…” line and I want it under that. Where would I put it to get it under the who and date/time the post was made? Thank you!!
Thanks so much for this tip. My default widgets was not working as i had a modified template. Works like a charm after I used the code from this post. Thanks again!
Yes, it working fine in my blog right now. But is there a way to change the default color cz black against brown in my blog is just hard to read?!