How To Add Related Posts with Thumbnail to Blogger

Related posts is played a great role for your blog. While your reader scrolling on your current topic, they might want to find another topic that related to what they are reading. Now, here is a wonderful widget to show your related different topic that will longger interest your reader to find useful topic iside your blog.

How to add related posts widget to Blogger/Blogspot

1. Login to Blogger Dashboard>>Template>>Edit Template

-Press "Ctrl + F" to open the search box and find </head> tags.

2. Just above the </head> past the following code:

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
#related-posts{float:left;width:auto;}
#related-posts a{border-right: 1px dotted #eaeaea;}
#related-posts a:hover{background: #EEEEEE;}
#related-posts h2{margin-top: 10px;background:none;font:18px Oswald;padding:3px;color:#999999; text-transform:uppercase;}
#related-posts .related_img {margin:5px;border:2px solid #f2f2f2;width:110px;height:100px;transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;-webkit-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;-moz-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;-o-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;-ms-transition:all 300ms ease-in-out;-webkit-border-radius: 5px;  -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; }
#related-title {color:#666;text-align:center;padding: 0px 5px 10px;font-size:12px;width:110px; height: 40px;}
#related-posts .related_img:hover{border:2px solid #E8E8E8;opacity:.7;filter:alpha(opacity=70);-moz-opacity:.7;-khtml-opacity:.7}</style>
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://helpblogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/related%20post%20thumbnail.js' />
</b:if>
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End-->

*Note: 
- If you want to change size of thumbnail, just edit the value in Red by yourself.
- To change the size of title of related posts, just change value in Green.

3. Now to add the skin, Just above <div class='post-footer'> past the following code:

<!-- 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>
<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=5&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:loop>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var currentposturl=&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;;
var maxresults=5;
var relatedpoststitle=&quot;<b>Related Posts:</b>&quot;;
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs();
</script>
</div><div class='clear'/><div style="font-size: 9px;float: right; margin: 5px;"><a  style="font-size: 9px; text-decoration: none;" href="http://cambohelpblogger.blogspot.com/2015/03/add-related-posts-thumbnail-blogger.html" rel="nofollow" >Related Posts Widget</a></div>
</b:if>
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->

*Note: 
-If you want to show related posts more than 5, change the value 5 to a number you want to.

4. Save the Template

Now your work is done! I hope that this tutorial will help you. If you still have any questions, feel free to descuss with you.