Related posts widget is a great source of increasing your blog traffic. There are various widget available for this purpose. Today I am going to about a new latest, easily customizable related posts widget.
To add this related post widget to you blogspot or blogger blog follow the following steps.
add the following code just before the </head> and save the template
to change the length of description edit numchars = 120.
Adding the Related Post Widget Code
Now search data:post.body
you may find more than one data:post.body try the following code after every data:post.body tag if it doesn’t work with one.
(Or add below the code <div class='post-footer'>)
To add this related post widget to you blogspot or blogger blog follow the following steps.
Adding the Script
Go to template editor of your blogger blog (log in > template > edit template) and search </head> tagadd the following code just before the </head> and save the template
<script type='text/javascript'>To change the number of posts, edit var numpost = 10 , you may change 10 to 4, 5, 6 or what ever you want.
//<![CDATA[
/*
Related Post with Thumbnail & Summary 1.0
*/
var relnojudul = 0;
var numpost = 10;
var numchars = 120;
var reljudul=new Array();var relurls=new Array();var relcuplikan=new Array();var relgambar=new Array();function saringtags(g,h){var e=g.split("<");for(var f=0;f<e.length;f++){if(e[f].indexOf(">")!=-1){e[f]=e[f].substring(e[f].indexOf(">")+1,e[f].length)}}e=e.join("");e=e.substring(0,h-1);return e}function relpostimgcuplik(h){for(var e=0;e<h.feed.entry.length;e++){var g=h.feed.entry[e];reljudul[relnojudul]=g.title.$t;postcontent="";if("content" in g){postcontent=g.content.$t}else{if("summary" in g){postcontent=g.summary.$t}}relcuplikan[relnojudul]=saringtags(postcontent,numchars);if("media$thumbnail" in g){postimg=g.media$thumbnail.url}else{postimg="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-htG7vy9vIAA/Tp0KrMUdoWI/AAAAAAAABAU/e7XkFtErqsU/s1600/grey.GIF"}relgambar[relnojudul]=postimg;for(var f=0;f<g.link.length;f++){if(g.link[f].rel=="alternate"){relurls[relnojudul]=g.link[f].href;break}}relnojudul++}}function contains(a,e){for(var f=0;f<a.length;f++){if(a[f]==e){return true}}return false}function artikelterkait(){var v=new Array(0);var w=new Array(0);var x=new Array(0);var A=new Array(0);for(var u=0;u<relurls.length;u++){if(!contains(v,relurls[u])){v.length+=1;v[v.length-1]=relurls[u];w.length+=1;w[w.length-1]=reljudul[u];x.length+=1;x[x.length-1]=relcuplikan[u];A.length+=1;A[A.length-1]=relgambar[u]}}reljudul=w;relurls=v;relcuplikan=x;relgambar=A;for(var u=0;u<reljudul.length;u++){var B=Math.floor((reljudul.length-1)*Math.random());var i=reljudul[u];var s=relurls[u];var y=relcuplikan[u];var C=relgambar[u];reljudul[u]=reljudul[B];relurls[u]=relurls[B];relcuplikan[u]=relcuplikan[B];relgambar[u]=relgambar[B];reljudul[B]=i;relurls[B]=s;relcuplikan[B]=y;relgambar[B]=C}var r=0;var D=Math.floor((reljudul.length-1)*Math.random());var z=D;var q;var t=document.URL;while(r<numpost){if(relurls[D]!=t){q="<li class='news-title clearfix'>";q+="<a href='"+relurls[D]+"' rel='nofollow' target='_top' title='"+reljudul[D]+"'><div class='overlayb'></div><img src='"+relgambar[D]+"' /></a>";q+="<a class='relinkjdulx' href='"+relurls[D]+"' target='_top'>"+reljudul[D]+"</a>";q+="<span class='news-text'>"+relcuplikan[D]+"</span>";q+="</li>";document.write(q);r++;if(r==numpost){break}}if(D<reljudul.length-1){D++}else{D=0}if(D==z){break}}};
//]]>
</script>
to change the length of description edit numchars = 120.
Adding The CSS.
CSS gives design to the new related posts widget. Go to your template editor and search </b:skin>. add the code below just before </b:skin>#related_posts{padding:0 5px 5px;overflow:hidden;display:inline;}#related_posts h4{padding:5px;font-size:16px;text-align:left}ul#relpost_img_sum{margin:0;padding:0;text-align:justify;display:inline;}ul#relpost_img_sum li{list-style:none;padding:5px;margin:0;width:490px;float:left;display:inline;}ul#relpost_img_sum li a{display:block}ul#relpost_img_sum li img{float:left;width:60px;height:60px;margin-right:5px;padding:2px;background-color:#1B1B1B;border:1px solid #cacaca}you may change the width (width:490px) according to your post area width. You may change the post heading background by changing the color code FFFF99
ul#relpost_img_sum li a.relinkjdulx{display:block;height:30px;overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:3px;background-image:none;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;background:#FFFF99;}
Adding the Related Post Widget Code
Now search data:post.body
you may find more than one data:post.body try the following code after every data:post.body tag if it doesn’t work with one.
(Or add below the code <div class='post-footer'>)
<div id='related_posts'>Save the template, and check your code if it is working. if it doesn’t work please post in comment. I will look into it.
<h4>Related Posts</h4>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&callback=relpostimgcuplik&max-results=50"' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:loop>
<ul id='relpost_img_sum'>
<script type='text/javascript'>artikelterkait();</script>
</ul>
</div>
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