Rahul Gaur

For displaying the thumbnails you need not to worry about anything, this thing is taken care by the widget automatically, but you must have at-least one image in the post.


Follow the steps to display Related Posts Widget in Blogger With Thumbnails.

Step 1: First Login to your blogger dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML and check the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox.
Step 2: Find the

              </head>

Step 3: Replace it with

              <!–Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start–>
              <b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘>
              <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, �Times New Roman�, 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/relatedthumbs21.js’         type=’text/javascript’/>
            </b:if>
            <!–Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End–>
            </head>

Step 4: Find the either line given below

            <div class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′>
            OR
            <p class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′>

Step 5: Put the code given below immediately after the above one.

<!– 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=5;
var relatedpoststitle=”Related Posts”;
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs();
</script>
</div><div style=’clear:both’/>
</b:if>
<!– Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End–>

Now Save Template and View your blog you will find Results, if you don’t see the images then keep patient it will show you withing 24 Hours.


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

var maxresults=5;

5.To edit the title of the widget you can change this line of code:

var relatedpoststitle=”Related Posts”;

If you have any issue please comment here.

So if these widgets are not present in your blog, then follow these steps to add them yourself :

First log in to Blogger.com
Go to Layout -> Click on Edit HTML tab

Now search (CTRL+F) for these code line:

<div id=’footer-wrapper’>

<b:section class=’footer’ id=’footer’/>

</div>

REPLACE the entire red line in the above code, with this new code:

<div id=’footer-column-container’>
<div id=’footer2′ style=’width: 30%; float: left; margin:0; text-align: left;’>
<b:section class=’footer-column’ id=’col1′ preferred=’yes’ style=’float:left;’/>
</div>
<div id=’footer3′ style=’width: 40%; float: left; margin:0; text-align: left;’>
<b:section class=’footer-column’ id=’col2′ preferred=’yes’ style=’float:left;’/>
</div>
<div id=’footer4′ style=’width: 30%; float: right; margin:0; text-align: left;’>
<b:section class=’footer-column’ id=’col3′ preferred=’yes’ style=’float:right;’/>
</div>
<div style=’clear:both;’/>
<div id=’footer-bottom’ style=’text-align: center; padding: 10px; text-transform: lowercase;’>
<b:section class=’footer’ id=’col-bottom’ preferred=’yes’>
<b:widget id=’Text2′ locked=’false’ title=” type=’Text’/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div style=’clear:both;’/>
</div>

Now PREVIEW the template, and if no errors are displayed, then carry on:

Find this code:

]]></b:skin>

Then immediately BEFORE / ABOVE it, paste these lines:

#footer-column-container {
clear:both;
}

.footer-column {
padding: 10px;
}

Save the template, go to “Page Elements“, and add content to the three new widgets !