Related Posts Widget With Thumbnail For Blogger : Install manually

Related Posts Widget With Thumbnail For Blogger : Install manually

How To Add It On Blogger

• Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML.
• Expand Widget Templates Box.
• Now find </head> using CTRL+F function.
• Paste below code just above/before </head> tag.

<!--BTSNTS Related Script Posts 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:#E0F8E0;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var defaultnoimage="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMd4rxJHUuv4SrNObO0ePiMHfhAT_BRSKElZTMI8hYZJmouTKRCejIR6U9z2bs2AskSKTL0X3W2kWrJy6m0-ednMNCed4ShBYPhH7E1LiXeANoIfGlUs68hpJq_9rBZ_Hil1nBH1fAJqo/s400/noimage.png";
var maxresults=5;
var splittercolor="#d4eaf2";
var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
</script>
<script src='http://btsnts.googlecode.com/files/btsnts-related-posts01.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<!-- remove --></b:if>
<!--BTSNTS Related Script Posts Ends-->
</head>

Now Find any one of these -

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

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

And paste below code just after/below this code....

<!-- 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.btsnts.blogspot.com/'><img style="border: 0" alt="Related Posts Widget For Blogger with Thumbnails" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-widgets.png" /></a><a href='http://bloggertemplates.bloggerplugins.org/' ><img style="border: 0" alt="Blogger Templates" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-templates.png" /></a>
</b:if></b:if>
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

Customization

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

var maxresults=5;

You will also have to edit the posts per label(it should ideally be one more that maxresults)

max-results=6

To edit Title of the widget find this line

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/AVvXsEgMd4rxJHUuv4SrNObO0ePiMHfhAT_BRSKElZTMI8hYZJmouTKRCejIR6U9z2bs2AskSKTL0X3W2kWrJy6m0-ednMNCed4ShBYPhH7E1LiXeANoIfGlUs68hpJq_9rBZ_Hil1nBH1fAJqo/s400/noimage.png";

To Change the Colour of the Splitter Line

var splittercolor="#d4eaf2";