Related Posts Widget for Blogger with Thumbnails

Posted by admin Friday, April 23, 2010

STEP #1
Log in to Blogger -> Layout -> Edit HTMLand select the tick-boxExpand Widget Templates
Then, find (CTRL+F) this code in the template:

</head>

And immediately before it, paste this code:

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->

<!-- remove --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

<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/AVvXsEiwDP5wjvmkXtYRVPBF8xahV0npGWjuQiwHjF1x20LuQCZ0WQvZUY2KQ-5DMtXZZLwuSSSpYuFEO9aWTsI2DVko5HAdgzKrWlyNeTy-yWzCwF75yOYko_f_ph0vfEsHcTynoYHKfjHap9g/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'/>

<!-- remove --></b:if>

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End-->

STEP #2:
Now find this code in the template:

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

If you cant find it then try finding this one

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

Now immediately after any of these lines(whichever you could find) place this code snippet

<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start-->

<!-- remove --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

<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'/>

<!-- remove --></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>

<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

Now Click Save Template

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You can adjust the maximum number of related posts being displayed by editing this line in the code.

var maxresults=5;

To edit the title of the widget you can change this line of code

var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";

To change the default thumbnail, you can edit this line of code

var defaultnoimage="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwDP5wjvmkXtYRVPBF8xahV0npGWjuQiwHjF1x20LuQCZ0WQvZUY2KQ-5DMtXZZLwuSSSpYuFEO9aWTsI2DVko5HAdgzKrWlyNeTy-yWzCwF75yOYko_f_ph0vfEsHcTynoYHKfjHap9g/s400/noimage.png";

To Change the Colour of the Splitter Line , edit

var splittercolor="#d4eaf2";