Carousel is a widget inside your Blogger that contains all the code needed to make some of your recent or latest post appear inside a medium wherein it will automatically play from left to right or the other way like a photo slide show (as shown in the image below). The carousel also has the next and back buttons and it automatically changes color when you hover your mouse on its thumbnails.


Wondering how you can easily make a very impressive and responsive carousel widget inside your Blogger website like the gif sample above? For this tutorial, I will guide you to make one.

Here's a LIVE DEMO of what you can accomplish after you successfully followed all the steps that I wrote in this tutorial.

NEEDED:

a. 12 posts/articles in your Blogger (The carousel will not work if you only have less then 12 posts, but if you have more than 12 then you are ready to go)

b. 12 images for your 12 posts. (Make sure to put an image in your post so that its preview inside the carousel that you are going to make is good to see and will not look like the sample preview above)

STEPS:

1. Go to your Blogger > Theme > Edit HTML.

2. Search (Ctrl + F) for ]]></b:skin> , copy and paste the code below above it.

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#carousel .container{position:absolute;left:25px;width:100%;height:330px;overflow:hidden}
#carousel #previous_button{position:absolute;width:25px;height:330px;background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimg0KFMKKusXPeTmxo7Qztpxl8cV_dhM8iIn9SwBZWRoT2Ug1REFdmozXMqt8EWFaLfmxaCMLvThPBeZTac-cDM3VsyeOJFzqLM08-28I6UgxbjwMccCdwJFp5JhTL5Msk3FBqfhPY4yQ/s1600/prev.png) center;z-index:100;cursor:pointer;}
#carousel #next_button{position:absolute;right:0;width:25px;height:330px;background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CVoi-R8P-eRfd6qHAUlYRbeg5ZaYhE4R99NsRG9BFwvbip7oyt8b2SevjxgMn69yZ9dppa484GZxigPbaEp0EiM08iTOWLed8Y0XmknSNy38M054ilKuHSxQPFEk570sWSRBiegutFY/s1600/next.png) center;z-index:100;cursor:pointer;}
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#carousel ul li a.slider_title{color:#fff;display:block;margin-top:5px;text-shadow:0 1px 1px #000}
#carousel ul li a.slider_title:hover{color:#f7bc2f}

3. Now, search for the closing header tag. Just type </head to find it. Then copy and paste all the given code below above it.

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var gfeedfetcher_loading_image="indicator.gif";function gfeedrssticker(d,b,a,c){this.tickerid=d;this.delay=parseInt(a);this.mouseoverBol=0;this.itemsperpage=1;this.messagepointer=0;gfeedfetcher.call(this,d,b,c);this.itemcontainer="<div>";this.tickerdiv=document.getElementById(d)}gfeedrssticker.prototype=new gfeedfetcher;gfeedrssticker.prototype.constructor=gfeedrssticker;gfeedrssticker.prototype._displayresult=null;gfeedrssticker.prototype.entries_per_page=function(a){this.itemsperpage=a};gfeedrssticker.prototype._signaldownloadcomplete=function(){this.feedsfetched+=1;if(this.feedsfetched==this.feedurls.length){this._initscroller(this.feeds)}};gfeedrssticker.prototype._initscroller=function(a){var c=this;gfeedfetcher._sortarray(a,this.sortstring);this.itemsperpage=(this.itemsperpage>=a.length)?1:this.itemsperpage;var b=a.slice(this.messagepointer,this.itemsperpage);this.tickerdiv.innerHTML=formatrssmessage(b,this.showoptions,this.itemcontainer,this.linktarget);this.tickerdiv.onmouseover=function(){c.mouseoverBol=1};this.tickerdiv.onmouseout=function(){c.mouseoverBol=0};this.messagepointer=this.itemsperpage;if(window.attachEvent){window.attachEvent("onunload",function(){c.tickerdiv.onmouseover=c.tickerdiv.onmouseout=null})}setTimeout(function(){c._rotatemessage()},this.delay)};function formatrssmessage(d,b,f,g){var c=(f=="<li>")?"<ul>\n":"";for(var e=0;e<d.length;e++){var h='<a href="'+d[e].link+'" target="'+g+'" class="titlefield">'+d[e].title+"</a>";var j=/label/i.test(b)?'<span class="labelfield">['+d[e].ddlabel+"]</span>":" ";var k=gfeedfetcher._formatdate(d[e].publishedDate,b);var a=/description/i.test(b)?"<br />"+d[e].content:/snippet/i.test(b)?"<br />"+d[e].contentSnippet:"";c+=f+h+" "+j+" "+k+"\n"+a+f.replace("<","</")+"\n\n"}c+=(f=="<li>")?"</ul>\n":"";return c}gfeedrssticker.prototype._rotatemessage=function(){var b=this;if(this.mouseoverBol==1){setTimeout(function(){b._rotatemessage()},100)}else{var a=this.feeds.slice(this.messagepointer,this.messagepointer+this.itemsperpage);this.tickerdiv.innerHTML=formatrssmessage(a,this.showoptions,this.itemcontainer,this.linktarget);this.messagepointer=(this.messagepointer+this.itemsperpage>this.feeds.length-1)?0:this.messagepointer+this.itemsperpage;setTimeout(function(){b._rotatemessage()},this.delay)}};
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</script>

4. Now, we are going to place our carousel widget above our Blogger header. Beside the "Save theme" button, click "Jump to widget" and click Header1. Just above the opening header tag copy and paste the given code below.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<div id='carousel'>
<div id='previous_button'/>
<div class='container'>
<script>
document.write(&quot; &lt;script src=\&quot;/feeds/posts/default?max-results=&quot;+numposts1+&quot;&amp;orderby=published&amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=showrecentposts\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;&quot;);
</script>
<div class='clear'/>
</div>
<div id='next_button'/>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
(function($) { $(document).ready(function(){
$(&quot;#carousel .container&quot;).jCarouselLite({
auto:4000,
scroll: 1,
speed: 800,
visible: 4,
start: 0,
circular: true,
btnPrev: &quot;#previous_button&quot;,
btnNext: &quot;#next_button&quot;
});
})})(jQuery)
</script>
</b:if></b:if>

5. Save your template!

6. Test, whether your carousel widget is working or not.

Personalized your Carousel:
a. To edit the size of the thumbnails, just change the value of width:200px;

b. To lessen or show more thumbnails just change the value of visible: 4;

c. To change the carousel thumbnail background color, modify #carousel ul li{background:#729c0b
Change 729c0b to any color that you want.

d. To change the width of the carousel widget modify #carousel{width:100%;
Change 100% to any width that you wanted.

CREDITS: The code given in this tutorial was originally created by MASKOLIS.

If you have something to ask or share regarding this tutorial, do not hesitate to leave a comment below. Thank you!