How to Add Related Posts Widget in Blogger

Through this post, you will learn how to add related posts widget in blogger step by step with screenshots.

When we are creating a new blog, the foremost requirement is adding a related posts widget under each post its respective posts so that it is very important to add a related post widget in your blogger.

Related posts will increase your blog traffic when viewers come into your site to see popular posts which are displaying in first page results so that as a  blogger, you need to show the same topic posts under one label which provides easy navigation to the user to read related posts if he wants more information about the same topic so that every blogger need related posts widget in his blog for effective reading which helps your blog visitors to navigate between posts. 

First of all, enter into your blogger dashboard and next click on the template option now click on the Edit HTML button.

Now search for the </HEAD> tag.

Just above the </head> tag paste the below code

<!--Related Posts  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 h4{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;object-fit: cover;width:110px;height:100px;-webkit-border-radius: 5px;-moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; }

#related-title {color:#333;text-align:center;text-transform:capitalize;padding: 0px 5px 10px;font-size:12px;width:110px; height: 40px;}

</style>

<script type='text/javascript'>

//<![CDATA[

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.$t;try{thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]=entry.gform_foot.url}catch(error){s=entry.content.$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 thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg765qkdHUsK0KqdPNVRB6yr5_VNISAWACEr93bQim0rFu_7vyPbAcw_jqohyphenhyphenyRdTguLzXJoRwStAq6InFxfkd8HOr5rqfAZqefGHTnKnWCPd1Y3ZKEmzK7VyWtmTtcXrddks_lQE89ytBi/s1600/no-thumbnail.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(){for(var i=0;i<relatedUrls.length;i++){if((relatedUrls[i]==currentposturl)||(!(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('<h4>'+relatedpoststitle+'</h4>');document.write('<div style="clear: both;"/>');while(i<relatedTitles.length&&i<20&&i<maxresults){document.write('<a style="text-decoration:none;margin:0 4px 10px 0;float:left;');if(i!=0)document.write('"');else document.write('"');document.write(' href="'+relatedUrls[r]+'"><img class="related_img" src="'+thumburl[r]+'"/><br/><div id="related-title">'+relatedTitles[r]+'</div></a>');if(r<relatedTitles.length-1){r++}else{r=0}i++}document.write('</div>');relatedUrls.splice(0,relatedUrls.length);thumburl.splice(0,thumburl.length);relatedTitles.splice(0,relatedTitles.length)}

//]]>

</script>

</b:if>

<!--Related Posts  End-->

Now you search for the <div class='post-footer'> tag which you can find two times so stop at second search result.

now just above <div class='post-footer'> tag ,pest the below code.

<!-- Related Posts  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://helplogger.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-add-related-posts-widget-to.html" rel="nofollow" >Related Posts Widget</a></div>

</b:if>

<!-- Related Posts  End-->

 now save and view the blog, you can find the successful results.

If you want to show the related post in the main page also then remove <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>  and 

</b:if> from the both places coding added.

Conclusion

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