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Displaying related posts is a smart way for keeping your blog visitors around. Displaying related posts with their thumbnails and summaries will also help you to increase your blog traffic and today we've an amazing trick for showing related posts along with their thumbnails and summaries below every post. So, let's learn that how to implement this amazing related posts to your blogger blog. Have a look that how it looks like:

Adding Related Posts Widget with Thumbnails and Summary to Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Go to Template >> Click on Edit HTML and search (Ctrl + F) for the Following Tag

</head>

Step 3. Copy the Below code and Paste it just above/before the </head> tag

 <script type='text/javascript'>Related Posts
//<![CDATA[
var relatedTitles = new Array();
var relatedUrls = new Array();
var relatedpSummary = new Array();
var relatedThumb = new Array();
var relatedTitlesNum = 0;

var relatedPostsNum = 4;
var relatedmaxnum = 75;
var relatednoimage = "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAk9Wue3rHaQ-8mRo9uSSnO5Lfii275V22RkW-jcHhg52kXjtgg474rEtxlbLuMqKqAQ0m-8uRQeZolW2D-gCDmgKADk4N61ZOktk6x7kTbaNMu2YIda3Z_QpqS8MgcUkVV30r4OfchVgP/s1600/no_image.jpg";

function readpostlabels(json) {
  var entry, postimg, postcontent, cat;
  for (var i = 0; i < json.feed.entry.length; i++) {
    entry = json.feed.entry[i];
    if (i==json.feed.entry.length) { break; }
    relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.title.$t;
    postcontent = "";
    if ("content" in entry) {
      postcontent = entry.content.$t;
    } else if ("summary" in entry) {
      postcontent = entry.summary.$t;
    }
    relatedpSummary[relatedTitlesNum] = removetags(postcontent,relatedmaxnum);
    if ("media$thumbnail" in entry) {
      postimg = entry.media$thumbnail.url;
    } else {
      postimg = relatednoimage;
    }
    relatedThumb[relatedTitlesNum] = postimg;
    for (var k = 0; k < entry.link.length; k++) {
      if (entry.link[k].rel == 'alternate') {
        relatedUrls[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.link[k].href;
        break;
      }
    }
    relatedTitlesNum++;
  }
}
function showrelated() {
  var tmp = new Array(0);
  var tmp2 = new Array(0);
  var tmp3 = new Array(0);
  var tmp4 = new Array(0);
  for(var i = 0; i < relatedUrls.length; i++) {
    if(!contains(tmp, relatedUrls[i])) {
      tmp.length += 1; tmp[tmp.length - 1] = relatedUrls[i];
      tmp2.length += 1; tmp2[tmp2.length - 1] = relatedTitles[i];
      tmp3.length += 1; tmp3[tmp3.length - 1] = relatedpSummary[i];
      tmp4.length += 1; tmp4[tmp4.length - 1] = relatedThumb[i];
    }
  }
  relatedTitles = tmp2; relatedUrls = tmp; relatedpSummary = tmp3; relatedThumb = tmp4;
  for(var i = 0; i < relatedTitles.length; i++){
    var index = Math.floor((relatedTitles.length - 1) * Math.random());
    var tempTitle = relatedTitles[i]; var tempUrls = relatedUrls[i];
    var tempResum = relatedpSummary[i]; var tempImage = relatedThumb[i];
    relatedTitles[i] = relatedTitles[index]; relatedUrls[i] = relatedUrls[index];
    relatedpSummary[i] = relatedpSummary[index]; relatedThumb[i] = relatedThumb[index];
    relatedTitles[index] = tempTitle; relatedUrls[index] = tempUrls;
    relatedpSummary[index] = tempResum; relatedThumb[index] = tempImage;
  }
  var somePosts = 0;
  var r = Math.floor((relatedTitles.length - 1) * Math.random());
  var relsump = r;
  var output;
  var dirURL = document.URL;

  while (somePosts < relatedPostsNum) {
    if (relatedUrls[r] != dirURL) {

      output = "<div class='relatedsumposts'>";
      output += "<a href='" + relatedUrls[r] + "' rel='nofollow'  target='_self' title='" + relatedTitles[r] + "'><img src='" + relatedThumb[r] + "' /></a>";
      output += "<h6><a href='" + relatedUrls[r] + "' target='_self'>" + relatedTitles[r] + "</a></h6>";
      output += "<p>" + relatedpSummary[r] + " ... </p>";
      output += "</div>";
      document.write(output);
    
      somePosts++;
      if (somePosts == relatedPostsNum) { break; }
    }
    if (r < relatedTitles.length - 1) {

      r++;
    } else {
    
      r = 0;
    }

    if(r==relsump) { break; }
  }
}
function removetags(text,length){
  var pSummary = text.split("<");
  for(var i=0;i<pSummary.length;i++){
    if(pSummary[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){
      pSummary[i] = pSummary[i].substring(pSummary[i].indexOf(">")+1,pSummary[i].length);
    }
  }
  pSummary = pSummary.join("");
  pSummary = pSummary.substring(0,length-1);
  return pSummary;
}
function contains(a, e) {
  for(var j = 0; j < a.length; j++) if (a[j]==e) return true;
  return false;
}
//]]>
</script>

Customization :
  • Replace 4 with the number of posts you want to show
  • Replace 75 to change the number of characters you wan to show in summary
  • Replace https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAk9Wue3rHaQ-8mRo9uSSnO5Lfii275V22RkW-jcHhg52kXjtgg474rEtxlbLuMqKqAQ0m-8uRQeZolW2D-gCDmgKADk4N61ZOktk6x7kTbaNMu2YIda3Z_QpqS8MgcUkVV30r4OfchVgP/s1600/no_image.jpg with your image URL to change the default image ( If there is no image in the post )
Step 4. Now again Copy the Below code and also Paste it just above/before the </head> tag

<style>
.relatedsumposts {
  float: left;
  margin: 0px 5px;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-align: center;
  width: 120px;
  height: 210px;
}

.relatedsumposts:hover {
background-color: #F3F3F3; -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
}

.relatedsumposts img:hover {
-khtml-opacity:0.4;
-moz-opacity:0.4;
opacity:0.4;
}

.relatedsumposts a {
color: #linkcolor;
  display: inline;
  font-size: 10px;
  line-height: 1;
}
.relatedsumposts img {
margin-top: 2px;
  height: 82px;
  padding: 5px;
  width: 82px;
border: 1px solid #fff;
-webkit-border-radius: 100px;
-moz-border-radius: 100px;
border-radius: 100px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);
}
.relatedsumposts h6 {
  display: table-cell;
  height: 5em;
  margin: 5px 0 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding-bottom: 2px;
  vertical-align: middle;
  width: 130px;
}

.relatedsumposts p {
border-top: 1px dotted #777777;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #777777;
color: #summarycolor;
  font-size: 10px;
  height: 4em;
  line-height: 1;
  margin: 5px 0 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 5px 0 15px 0;
  text-align: left;
}
</style>

Step 5. Search ( Ctrl + F) for the following piece of code

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>,</b:if>

And add the following code just below/after it

<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=readpostlabels&amp;max-results=50&quot;' type='text/javascript'/>
  </b:if>

Step 6. Now search ( Ctrl + F )  for the following code

</b:includable>
<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'>

Note : If you can't find it, then search only for the green code
Step 7. Copy the below code and add it just above/before it

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
  <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-4'>
    <div id='relatedpostssum'><div style='text-align: left; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold;'>Related Posts</div>
      <script type='text/javascript'>showrelated();</script>
    </div>
    <div style='clear:both;'/>
  </div>
</b:if>

Step 8. Hit the Save Template Button
And That's it...

6 comments to ''Related Posts Widget with Thumbnails and Summary for Blogger"

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  1. i downloaded simple tech theme to my blogger and try to add the related post following this steps but when i get to step 5, i cannot find this code , in my html.what should be done

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  2. Hey Zohaib, I must say, you are doing a great job here. Keep it up. Want to ask though, do you know how to create widgets from Google+ communities for blogger?

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    1. Thank you for your appreciation.
      And you asked about creating a G+ badge for communities, its just simple go to https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/, select your community, customize its design, copy the code and add it to your blog layout using HTML/JavaScript widget.

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