How to create Related Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger?

Display related posts on an blog post is a effective way to increase your blog pageviews. Today, I will guide you how to create a Related Post Widget with Thumbnails for your blog. It will show the related articles with a thumbnails in the same label or category. Following the steps bellow to complete this task. It worked for me.



Step 1: Go to your DashBoard ->Template->Edit HTML and check "Expand Widget Templates" check box.
Step 2: Search for </head> tab.
Step 3: Add the following code just before the </head> tab:

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->
<style type="text/css">
#related-posts {
float:center;
text-transform:none;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
padding-top:5px;
padding-left:5px;
}

#related-posts h2{
font-size: 1.6em;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
font-family: Georgia, &#8220;Times New Roman&#8221;, Times, serif;
margin-bottom: 0.75em;
margin-top: 0em;
padding-top: 0em;
}
#related-posts a{
color:black;
}
#related-posts a:hover{
color:black;
}

#related-posts  a:hover {
background-color:#d4eaf2;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var defaultnoimage="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuEhazjMKNoW3hVq2v6epY9qCtOQaP6uyVc4fRoWEaOk-9nTwdnRbI4QzlbRn01atBcqij0X7Qf71_HYsicQlRk_9OwfG6LKHOE_6yPpIPdvtZjxa4TqyBQ0_C_1lQ9ISe0pKMtnITpE/s400/noimage.png";
var maxresults=5;
var splittercolor="#d4eaf2";
var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
</script>
<script src='http://blogergadgets.googlecode.com/files/related-posts-with-thumbnails-for-blogger-pro.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End-->

Step 4: Then search for

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

or

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

Step 5: Add the following code beneath the above line

<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start-->
<div id='related-posts'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>
</b:if>
<script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&amp;max-results=6&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:loop>
<script type='text/javascript'>
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs(&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;);
</script>
</div><div style='clear:both'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'><b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost'>
<a href='http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/08/related-posts-thumbnails-blogger-widget.html'><img style="border: 0" alt="Related Posts Widget For Blogger with Thumbnails" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-widgets.png" /></a><a href='http://bloggertemplates.bloggerplugins.org/' ><img style="border: 0" alt="Blogger Templates" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-templates.png" /></a>
</b:if></b:if>
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

Step 6: You can adjust the maximum number of related posts being displayed by editing this line in the code in the step 3
      var maxresults=5


Step 7: Click Save Template

Hope this helps!

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