Popular Posts with jQuery Slider

With this article we’d like to share with you a simple code to make your Popular Posts in Blogger more attractive for the readers and visitors of your blog. For the Popular Posts Slider we use jQuery and jQuery Cycle Plugin. Download them and paste the codes before </body>
Use the CSS below to style your Slider. Paste this code before ]]></b:skin>

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.PopularPosts .fbt-slide-nav {
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
  top: 10px;
  right: 10px;
  z-index: 9;
}

.PopularPosts .fbt-slide-pager a {
  cursor: pointer;
  display: inline-block;
  float: none;
  height: 7px;
  width: 7px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 1px solid #fff;
  line-height: 1;
  margin: 0 2px;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 0;
  text-indent: -999px;
  text-align: center;
}

.PopularPosts .fbt-slide-pager a:hover, 
.PopularPosts .fbt-slide-pager a.activeSlide {
  text-decoration: none;
  background: #fff;
}

.PopularPosts nav a {
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  display: block;
  outline: none;
  text-align: left;
  z-index: 9;
  -webkit-transform: translateY(-50%);
  transform: translateY(-50%);
  transition: .2s ease-in-out;
}

.PopularPosts nav a.prev,
.PopularPosts nav a.fp-prev {
  left: 10px;
}

.PopularPosts nav a.next,
.PopularPosts nav a.fp-next {
  right: 10px;
}

.PopularPosts nav a.prev .fa,
.PopularPosts nav a.next .fa,
.PopularPosts nav a.fp-prev .fa,
.PopularPosts nav a.fp-next .fa {
  font-size: 30px;
  color: #ffffff;
  opacity: 0.4;
  transition: .2s ease-in-out;
}

.PopularPosts .nav-growpop div {
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  width: 100%;
  background: #ffffff;
}

.PopularPosts .img-credits {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  padding: 10px 15px 15px;
  opacity: 1;
  transition: .3s ease-in-out;
  background: linear-gradient(to top,rgba(0,0,0,.9) 0,rgba(0,0,0,0) 100%);
  color: #cccccc;
  width: 95%!important;
}

.PopularPosts .img-credits a {
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 20px;
}

.PopularPosts .fp-slides {
  width: 100%;
  height: 325px!important;
  max-width: 100%;
  max-height: 325px;
  overflow: hidden;
  background: #d2d1d0;
  margin: 0 auto!important;
}

.PopularPosts .widget-content {
  position: relative; 
}

.PopularPosts.widget ul {
  margin: 0!important;
  padding: 0;
}

.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li {
  padding: 0;
  width: 100%!important;
  max-width: 100%;
  height: 325px;
  max-height: 325px;
  background-position: center;
  -webkit-background-size: cover;
  -moz-background-size: cover;
  background-size: cover;
  -o-background-size: cover;
}

.PopularPosts .item-thumbnail {
  float: none;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0!important;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.PopularPosts ul li img {
  float: none;
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 100%;
}

.PopularPosts .item-snippet {
  display: block;
  font-size: 13px;
  line-height: 1.4em;
  margin-top: 10px;
  color: #ffffff;
}

.PopularPosts:hover .nav-growpop .fa {
  opacity: 1;
}

Use our custom javascript to function your Slider widget. Paste below code before </body>

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// slider popular posts
  $(".PopularPosts ul").addClass("fp-slides");
  $(".PopularPosts img").attr('src', function(i, src) {
	return src.replace('w72-h72', 's1600');
  });
  $('.PopularPosts li').each(function() {
	$(this).find(".item-title, .item-snippet").wrapAll('<div class="img-credits"/>');
  });
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content').append('<div class="fbt-slide-nav"><span class="fbt-slide-pager"></span></div> <nav class="nav-growpop"><div><a class="fp-prev" href="#fp-prev"><i class="fa fa-chevron-left" aria-hidden="true"></i></a><a class="fp-next" href="#fp-next"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></div></nav>');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li .item-thumbnail').addClass("hidden");
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(1) img').attr('id', 'popular1');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(2) img').attr('id', 'popular2');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(3) img').attr('id', 'popular3');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(4) img').attr('id', 'popular4');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(5) img').attr('id', 'popular5');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(6) img').attr('id', 'popular6');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(7) img').attr('id', 'popular7');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(8) img').attr('id', 'popular8');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(9) img').attr('id', 'popular9');
  $('.PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(10) img').attr('id', 'popular10');
  $(document).ready(function() {
	$("#popular1").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(1)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular2").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(2)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular3").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(3)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular4").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(4)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular5").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(5)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular6").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(6)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular7").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(7)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular8").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(8)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular9").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(9)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});$("#popular10").each(function(){var t=$(this).attr("src");$(".PopularPosts .widget-content ul li:nth-child(10)").css({"background-image":"url("+t+")"})});
  });
  //]]></script>

Save your template an you are done.

Now you can add the first Popular Posts Widget with Slider.

Note 1: In this cage you can’t add any other Popular Posts widget in your Page to avoid double import of ID’s.

Note 2: If you already have a jQuery code, don’t insert again the same code.

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