How To Add Related Posts Widget To Blogger with Thumbnails

Hello friends, here is an amazing hack for displaying related posts after every post with post thumbnails. The related posts are picked from other posts having same category/label/tag. This hack may increase your blog views or blog visitors.

Steps to add related posts widgets to Blogger with thumbnails

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger account and go to Template > Edit HTML

Step 2. In the edit html, you will need to paste the code in the blogger template….., find the ctrl+f and search </head>

And paste the css code before that close head tag.

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
#related-posts {
   float:left;
   width:auto;
}
#related-posts h2 {
   margin-top: 10px;
   background:none;padding:3px;
}
#related-posts .related_img {
   margin:5px;
   border:4px solid #f2f2f2;
   width:105px;height:105px;
   transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;
   -webkit-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;
   -moz-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;
   -o-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;
   -ms-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;
}
#related-title {
   color: #222;
   line-height: 16px;
   padding: 0 10px;
   text-align: center;
   text-shadow: 0 2px 2px #fff;
   width: 100px;
}
#related-posts .related_img:hover{
   opacity:.7;
   filter:alpha(opacity=70);
   -moz-opacity:.7;
   -khtml-opacity:.7
}
#related-title:hover {
   text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
imgr=new Array();imgr[0]="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiCdpHzTvFvoB9fbUuDbwwjY7WhEiPF9n8Zi2sC0ZTCBl7onCtkU6H1jn87jBpQGzb4fhZzq8beWeLkmUEwVtrAkCAJRmgLlwx_caM5wdSuaQBBJkOa9VQGhyphenhyphenn30tUF5v_3jk2sF3RfCz/s1600/no-thumbnail.png";showRandomImg=true;aBold=true;summaryPost=400;summaryTitle=20;numposts1=12;numposts2=4;function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){var s=strx.split("<");for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){s[i]=s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length)}}s=s.join("");s=s.substring(0,chop-1);return s}
 function showrecentposts1(json){j=(showRandomImg)?Math.floor((imgr.length+1)*Math.random()):0;img=new Array();if(numposts2<=json.feed.entry.length){maxpost=numposts2}else{maxpost=json.feed.entry.length}for(var i=0;i<maxpost;i++){var entry=json.feed.entry[i];var posttitle=entry.title.$t;var pcm;var posturl;if(i==json.feed.entry.length)break;for(var k=0;k<entry.link.length;k++){if(entry.link[k].rel=='alternate'){posturl=entry.link[k].href;break}}for(var k=0;k<entry.link.length;k++){if(entry.link[k].rel=='replies'&&entry.link[k].type=='text/html'){pcm=entry.link[k].title.split(" ")[0];break}}if("content"in entry){var postcontent=entry.content.$t}else if("summary"in entry){var postcontent=entry.summary.$t}else var postcontent="";postdate=entry.published.$t;if(j>imgr.length-1)j=0;img[i]=imgr[j];s=postcontent;a=s.indexOf("<img");b=s.indexOf("src=\"",a);c=s.indexOf("\"",b+5);d=s.substr(b+5,c-b-5);if((a!=-1)&&(b!=-1)&&(c!=-1)&&(d!=""))img[i]=d;var month=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12];var month2=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];var day=postdate.split("-")[2].substring(0,2);var m=postdate.split("-")[1];var y=postdate.split("-")[0];for(var u2=0;u2<month.length;u2++){if(parseInt(m)==month[u2]){m=month2[u2];break}}var daystr=day+' '+m+' '+y;pcm='<a href="'+posturl+'">'+pcm+' comments</a>';var trtd='<div class="col_maskolis"><h2 class="posttitle"><a href="'+posturl+'">'+posttitle+'</a></h2><a href="'+posturl+'"><img class="related_img" src="'+img[i]+'"/></a><div class="clear"></div></div>';document.write(trtd);j++}}var relatedTitles=new Array();var relatedTitlesNum=0;var relatedUrls=new Array();var thumburl=new Array();function related_results_labels_thumbs(json){for(var i=0;i<json.feed.entry.length;i++){var entry=json.feed.entry[i];relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum]=entry.title.$t;try{thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]=entry.gform_foot.url}catch(error){s=entry.content.$t;a=s.indexOf("<img");b=s.indexOf("src=\"",a);c=s.indexOf("\"",b+5);d=s.substr(b+5,c-b-5);if((a!=-1)&&(b!=-1)&&(c!=-1)&&(d!="")){thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]=d}else thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiCdpHzTvFvoB9fbUuDbwwjY7WhEiPF9n8Zi2sC0ZTCBl7onCtkU6H1jn87jBpQGzb4fhZzq8beWeLkmUEwVtrAkCAJRmgLlwx_caM5wdSuaQBBJkOa9VQGhyphenhyphenn30tUF5v_3jk2sF3RfCz/s1600/no-thumbnail.png'}for(var k=0;k<entry.link.length;k++){if(entry.link[k].rel=='alternate'){relatedUrls[relatedTitlesNum]=entry.link[k].href;relatedTitlesNum++}}}}function removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs(){var tmp=new Array(0);var tmp2=new Array(0);var tmp3=new Array(0);for(var i=0;i<relatedUrls.length;i++){if(!contains_thumbs(tmp,relatedUrls[i])){tmp.length+=1;tmp[tmp.length-1]=relatedUrls[i];tmp2.length+=1;tmp3.length+=1;tmp2[tmp2.length-1]=relatedTitles[i];tmp3[tmp3.length-1]=thumburl[i]}}relatedTitles=tmp2;relatedUrls=tmp;thumburl=tmp3}function contains_thumbs(a,e){for(var j=0;j<a.length;j++)if(a[j]==e)return true;return false}function printRelatedLabels_thumbs(){for(var i=0;i<relatedUrls.length;i++){if((relatedUrls[i]==currentposturl)||(!(relatedTitles[i]))){relatedUrls.splice(i,1);relatedTitles.splice(i,1);thumburl.splice(i,1);i--}}var r=Math.floor((relatedTitles.length-1)*Math.random());var i=0;if(relatedTitles.length>0)document.write('<h2>'+relatedpoststitle+'</h2>');document.write('<div style="clear: both;"/>');while(i<relatedTitles.length&&i<20&&i<maxresults){document.write('<a style="text-decoration:none;margin:0 4px 10px 0;float:left;');if(i!=0)document.write('"');else document.write('"');document.write(' href="'+relatedUrls[r]+'"><img class="related_img" src="'+thumburl[r]+'"/><br/><div id="related-title">'+relatedTitles[r]+'</div></a>');if(r<relatedTitles.length-1){r++}else{r=0}i++}document.write('</div>');relatedUrls.splice(0,relatedUrls.length);thumburl.splice(0,thumburl.length);relatedTitles.splice(0,relatedTitles.length)}
//]]>
</script>
</b:if>
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End-->

Step 3. In the template editor find the (ctrl+f)

<div class='comments' id='comments'>

Paste this code before this ‘div comment tag’

<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start-->
<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>
       <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
       <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:if></b:loop>
       <script type='text/javascript'>
           var currentposturl=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;;
           var maxresults=6;
           var relatedpoststitle=&quot;<b>Related Posts:</b>&quot;;
           removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
           printRelatedLabels_thumbs();
       </script>
   </div>
</b:if>
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

Now the related post with post thumbnail has now shown in your blog post and see the result.

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