How To Add Related Posts With Thumbnail Links On Blogger - io2x

In this tutorial I will show you how to add a related posts with thumbnails widget to your blogger.com blog after your blog posts.

This widget was developed by: Bloggerplugins.com

The below image is an example of what it will look like:

How To Add Related Posts With Thumbnail Links On Blogger

It's a great way to keep people interested in reading more posts on your website.

Let's get started:

First login to your Blogger Dashboard

Then click Layout

Next click Edit HTML

*Make a backup copy of your current template in case you receive any errors.

Now click the Expand Widgets Box

Look for the following code (you can hit "ctrl f" to do a quick search)

</head>

Once you find the </head> tag, paste the following code above it:


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<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, “Times New Roman”, 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="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u4gySN2ZgqE/SosvnavWq0I/AAAAAAAAArk/yL95WlyTqr0/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'/>
</b:if>


Next look for this code, (again hit "ctrl f" to do a quick search):

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

Or if you can't find that code, look for this code:

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

Immediately after the one of the two codes you found paste the following code:


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div id='related-posts'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>
</b:if>
<script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&max-results=6"' type='text/javascript'/></b:loop>
<script type='text/javascript'>
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs("<data:post.url/>");
</script>
</div><div style='clear:both'/>
</b:if>
<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://www.bloggerplugins.org/' ><img style="border: 0" alt="Blogger Widgets" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-widgets.png" /></a>
</b:if></b:if>


Edit the title of the widget by changing the words "Related Posts" in the following to whatever you'd like it to say:

var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";

Change the default thumbnail when you have no image in a post by pasting in your own image url within the "" in the following code:

var defaultnoimage="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u4gySN2ZgqE/SosvnavWq0I/AAAAAAAAArk/yL95WlyTqr0/s400/noimage.png";

Change the spitter line color in the following coding by replacing #d4eaf2" with the color of your choice.

var splittercolor="#d4eaf2";

You can have the related posts display on every page and not just on the posts pages by removing these two codes:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType = "item"'>

</b:if>