Related Posts Blogger Widget and LinkedWithIn for Blogger

Related posts Widget, as the title says , this Widget will generate the list of related posts. this Widget can be added either in homepage (under each posts) or inside the post. By placing this related posts Widget, there is chance the spread the other posts to visitors and they may have a tendency to take that post from the list, it will reduce the bounce rate of your blog and will keep your visitors from suddenly quit from your blog. Let’s see how to add related posts widget to Blogger

To view demo see this Related posts Widget
This can be done using two ways

• Using LinkedWithIn [Simple Website providing the Widget]
• Add the Related posts widget to Blogger Manually

Using LinkedWithIn Widget

• It is very simple to add LinkedWithIn Widget
• Go to LinkedWithIn website and follow the simple instructions
• Give e-mail id, blog url, select platform as Blogger and select number of posts should be displayed.

 Add Related Posts Manually to Blogger

•  Sign In to Blogger Dashboard
• Go to Template -> Edit HTML
• Find </head>
• Copy the below code above </head>

<!–Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts Start–>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’> /* remove this */
<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: 18px;
letter-spacing: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
text-transform: none;
color: #5D5D5D;
font-family: Arial Narrow;
margin-bottom: 0.75em;
margin-top: 0em;
padding-top: 0em;
}
#related-posts a{
border-right: 1px dotted #DDDDDD;
color:#5D5D5D;
}
#related-posts a:hover{
color:black;
background-color:#EDEDEF;
}
</style>
<script type=’text/javascript’>
var defaultnoimage=”https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u4gySN2ZgqE/SosvnavWq0I/AAAAAAAAArk/yL95WlyTqr0/s400/noimage.png”;
var maxresults=5;
var splittercolor=”#DDDDDD”;
var relatedpoststitle=”Related Posts”;
</script><a href=”http://www.netoopsblog.com” style=”font-size:0pt”>Blogger Widgets</a>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.$t;
try
{thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]=entry.media$thumbnail.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 {if(typeof(defaultnoimage) !== ‘undefined’) thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]=defaultnoimage; else thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u4gySN2ZgqE/SosvnavWq0I/AAAAAAAAArk/yL95WlyTqr0/s400/noimage.png”;}

}

if(relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum].length>35) relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum]=relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum].substring(0, 35)+”…”;
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(current) {
var splitbarcolor;
if(typeof(splittercolor) !== ‘undefined’) splitbarcolor=splittercolor; else splitbarcolor=”#d4eaf2″;
for(var i = 0; i < relatedUrls.length; i++)
{
if((relatedUrls[i]==current)||(!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;padding:5px;float:left;’);
if(i!=0) document.write(‘border-left:solid 0.5px ‘+splitbarcolor+’;”‘);
else document.write(‘”‘);
document.write(‘ href=”‘ + relatedUrls[r] + ‘”><img style=”width:72px;height:72px;border:0px;” src=”‘+thumburl[r]+'”/><br/><div style=”width:72px;padding-left:3px;height:65px;border: 0pt none ; margin: 3px 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;”>’+relatedTitles[r]+'</div></a>’);

i++;

 

if (r < relatedTitles.length – 1) {
r++;
} else {
r = 0;
}

}
document.write(‘</div>’);

relatedUrls.splice(0,relatedUrls.length);
thumburl.splice(0,thumburl.length);
relatedTitles.splice(0,relatedTitles.length);

}

</b:if> /* remove this */
<!–Related Posts with thumbnails Script End–>

Customization

• RED marked – remove red marked portion to add this Widget to Homepage
• Brown – place the URL of the image in quotes to display if there is no image in the post.
• maxresults=5 – change the value to change the number of posts to be displayed.
• splittercolor=”#DDDDDD” – change the color of splitter line between posts. Check here to see color codes selector
• relatedpoststitle=”Related Posts” – Change the Name of title.

 Add to Post Footer

•  Find <div class=’post-footer’> and copy the below code above it

<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’/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl’><b:if cond=’data:post.isFirstPost’>
<a href=’http://www.netoopsblog.com’><img alt=’Blogger Widgets’ src=’https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RikrI-c_pyQ/T2DTcP6aMvI/AAAAAAAAAL0/H6v7PVoHM_w/s1600/1x1juice.png’/></a>
</b:if></b:if>

• Remove Orange marked to add related posts to homepage too.
• Change RED marked to change the number of posts should be displayed

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