Login to you dashboard and click templet setting
Click add gadget to the place you want the recent post to display. Normal it can be the sidebar depends on your template.
You are to add configuration/JavaScript gadget
Then past the below code in the gadget.
Replace Gistsnaij. With your blog name
<link href="http://gistsnaij.blogspot.com/Scripts/recent.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="http://mybloggerlab.com/Scripts/json.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var numposts = 5;
var showpostthumbnails = true;
var displaymore = false;
var displayseparator = true;
var showcommentnum = false;
var showpostdate = false;
var showpostsummary = false;
var numchars = 100;</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.Gistsnaij.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=labelthumbs"></script>
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