Show Recent Posts

Go to layout in your blog settings, add new gadget, select "HTML/Javascript" paste the following code:

<div id="hlrpsa">

<script src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent-posts-with-snippets.js">

</script>

<script>

var numposts = 5;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;

</script>

<script src="http://YOUR BLOG URL.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=showrecentposts">

</script></div>

<noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript!</noscript>

<style type="text/css">

#hlrpsa a {color: #0B3861; font-size: 13px;} #rpdr {background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWuNYzcMwc_iEL1b377lm7C95x_N-cMSHDfAFIFQWx33ml7z6MmG5RLooLVr0d-DnN1yuqYD6DOFX65AVi8165V-6lKrzsix0sILOFB7acXu0GxKchwRFUFPy4EpAe54Td6KWXVLxfLtZH/s1600/blogger.png) 0px 0px no-repeat; padding: 1px 0px 0px 19px; height:14px; margin: 5px 0px 0px 0px;line-height:14px;}

#rpdr, #rpdr a {color:#808080;}

#hlrpsa { color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin-top:-10px; padding-bottom:10px;}

.hlrps a {font-weight:bold; }

.hlrpssumm {}

</style>

Replace "YOUR BLOG URL" in the code

Show Recent Comments

Go to layout in your blog settings, add new gadget, select "HTML/Javascript" paste the following code:

<script style=text/javascript src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recent comments widget.js"></script><script style=text/javascript >var a_rc=3;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var o_rc=100;</script><script src=http://YOUR BLOG URL.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments ></script><style type=text/css> .rcw-comments a {text-transform: capitalize;} .rcw-comments {padding-top: 6px!important; padding-bottom: 7px!important;} #rcw-cr {font-family: Arial,Tahoma;font-size:9px;padding-top:7px;display:block;} </style>

Replace "YOUR BLOG URL" in the code

Display Popular Posts

Easy!

Go to layout in your blog settings, add new gadget, select "popular posts". There it is!

"You Might Also Like" for Blogger

This gadget will show at the end of every post to prompt your reader to read related posts. 

Go to http://www.linkwithin.com/ 
From there, you will have step by step instructions on how to install this gadget.