Relate posts with thumbnail?




Related Posts with Thumbnails for Blogger
Displaying the links to related posts along with a thumbnail of the corresponding post will help you increase the page views/user .Users will be tempted to go for the related posts when they are presented attractively with thumbnails.
This is another first release from me.This one also uses the media thumbnails generated by blogger for each post.
For displaying the thumbnails,this widget will use the images uploaded for the post using the blogger image uploader(from the post editor)
Related Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger
Here are the detailed installation steps.



1.First of all Login to your blogger dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML and Click on Expand Widget Templates
2.Now find </head>
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->
<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 src='http://blogergadgets.googlecode.com/files/relatedthumbs19.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End-->
</head>



3. now find this:
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>


4. if you can't find it try another one
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
    
5. Now immediately after any of these lines(whichever you could find) place this code snippet

<!-- 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><a href='http://bloggertipsandtemplates.blogspot.com/2009/09/related-posts-with-thumbnails-for.html' style='display:none;'>Related Posts with thumbnails for blogger</a><a href='http://bloggertipsandtemplates.blogspot.com/' style='display:none;'>blogger widgets</a>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var currentposturl=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;;
var maxresults=5;
var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs();
</script>
</div><div style='clear:both'/>
</b:if>
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

6. you can adjust the maximum number of related post by edit this line
    var maxresults=5;

7. to edit the title of widget try this change this code below:
    var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";

8. To change the colors and all you will have to modify the CSS

if you fail which one of the explanation  above just leave me a comment.