Related posts with thumbnails in blog is very helpful, most blogs have related posts I should recommend to add it to your blogger blog. The Related posts most put at the end of the blog post, the user engage to this related post to your blog, they likely to click it and your blog gain a traffic page views.
The benefits of related posts in blogger post, is to increase your pages views in your blog, it improves your internal links for your website. Related Posts is one of internal linking SEO strategy also breadcrumbs, categories, latest post, archives, related post, so definitely you add this widget elements.
Blogger Related Posts is not available in blogger admin panel at this time maybe in the future, so we need to add a piece of code in your blog template, just follow the instruction.
In this blogger tutorial for beginners series I will share how to add Related Posts with thumbnails in blogger template, it’s a very simple steps, so let’s start.
Preview:
In this screenshot as you see in the blogger blog post there have a 5 related post with title with thumbnails, we will add this related post via editing the code of blogger template.
Step 1: Edit HTML
In the blogger admin panel, go to Template -> Edit HTML
Step 2: Add Style to Related Post
In the Edit HTML, you’ll need to paste the code in the blogger template xml, find the… (Ctrl + f)
</head>
And paste the blogger css code BEFORE that close head tag.
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<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]="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ex3V86fj4dQ/UrCQQa4cLsI/AAAAAAAAFdA/j2FCTmGOrog/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]='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ex3V86fj4dQ/UrCQQa4cLsI/AAAAAAAAFdA/j2FCTmGOrog/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: Add Related Post with thumbnail
In the template editor find the (ctrl + f)
<div class='comments' id='comments'>
Find the 2 ‘div comment tag’ and paste the code below BEFORE of that ‘div comment tag’, so you should paste twice
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start-->
<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>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<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:if></b:loop>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var currentposturl="<data:post.url/>";
var maxresults=6;
var relatedpoststitle="<b>Related Posts:</b>";
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs();
</script>
</div>
</b:if>
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->
Now the related posts with thumbnail has now show in your blog post, check the your blog and see the result, Thanks for reading, if you have a question fill free comment below, please recommend and share.
