How to Get Default and Third Party Widget ID from Blogger Site?

Blogger Template is a combination of different widgets. Mostly we add widget on Blogger Header, Sidebar and Footer section. Widget can be add from Default and third party sources. Blogger default widgets are as follows-

• BlogArchive
• Blog
• Feed
• Header
• HTML
• SingleImage
• LinkList
• List
• Logo
• BlogProfile
• Navbar
• VideoBar
• NewsBar

And the above widget we included in different section of Blogger templates. But there are often required to get widget id for changing or customizing an specific Blogger widget. But to do this Blogger should know the widget ID.

For example, you have change a background color or text of sidebar section then all widget inside sidebar section will be change at a time. So for customizing we have to change the widget by ID not section. If you get the widget ID then you can mention the ID on CSS coding for changing or customizing the widget outlook.

This is not a hard task for finding your each and every widget ID. Just follow the below steps-

Finding Blogger's Default Widget ID

I will show you how we can find Blogger's Default Widget ID such as BlogArchive, Blog, Feed, Header.

Step 1 Log in to your Blogger Account and Go to your Blogger Dashboard

Step 2 Go to your Layout tab.

Step 3 From Blog Posts Click on Edit link. A popup window will appear. Notice that there is an URL of the widget on top of the window. Click on Maximize icon at the top right corner of the window. Now you can see the full URL clearly like below. 

https://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=5658556525502443729&action=editWidget&sectionId=main&widgetType=null&widgetId=Blog1

Step 4 Here the sectionId=main  and widgetId=Blog1. That means under Main section this is Blog Posts  widget whose ID is Blog1.

Remember that default Blogger widget ID always represent with widget name.

Finding Blogger's Third Party Widget ID

Default widget ID comes with specific name. But Third party widget ID will be visible by HTML serial number. So let's see how we can find Blogger's Third Party Widget ID.

Step 1 Log in to your Blogger Account and Go to your Blogger Dashboard

Step 2 Go to your Layout tab. Generally we add Third party widget code in HTML/JavaScriptwidget.

Step 3 From Layout locate your Third Party widget and Click on Edit link. A popup window will appear. Notice that there is an URL of the widget on top of the window. Click on Maximize icon at the top right corner of the window. Now you can see the full URL clearly like below.

https://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=5658556525502443729&action=editWidget&sectionId=sidebar1&widgetType=null&widgetId=HTML1

Step 4 Here the sectionId=sidebar1 and widgetId=HTML1. That means under Sidebar this is the first widget whose ID is HTML1.

Hope now you can easily identify the widget ID with and use it for different purpose. If you think