Related Posts Widget For Blogger

Relatively easy method of increasing page views on your blog is to add a list of related posts below each article. This offers readers a ready-made reading list of other articles on your blog, which are of a similar theme or subject matter.
For those using Blogger to publish their blogs, there are a few different methods available to display a list of related posts. In this post, I’ll offer one related posts hacks for Blogger blogs, which will offer your readers a taste of other related articles from your site.
To implement the related posts widget you will have to follow 2 simple replacement steps.
1.Login to your blogger account and get into your Dashboard
2.From there go to Layout > Edit HTML and expand your widget templates(option on the right)
3.Search for the </head> tag.
4.Add the following code just before the </head> tag.

<!--Related Posts Scripts and Styles Start-->
<!--Remove--><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type="text/css">
#related-posts {
float:center;
text-transform:none;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
padding-top:5px;
padding-left:5px;
}
#related-posts .widget{
padding-left:6px;
margin-bottom:10px;

}
#related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2{
font-size: 1.6em;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
font-family: Georgia, &#8220;Times New Roman&#8221;, Times, serif;
margin-bottom: 0.75em;
margin-top: 0em;
padding-top: 0em;
}
#related-posts a{
color:blue;
}
#related-posts a:hover{
color:blue;
}
#related-posts ul{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0 0 0px 0;
padding:0px;
text-decoration:bold;
font-size:15px;
text-color:#000000
}
#related-posts ul li{
background:transparent url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMlhiKRsRrUYAe9ApFR9KzAUsgK2GuhBXTe3mPxCvt3-TXhwlVzRxYDnyr3vYa7Da6wE46s-mDIAUVsGd3VOAUdVvl4VTlsZTS4Cwq-BPPEYzvsgLY_ZfTgLM-_aiwK7Cdcg0NlhV_g4/s200/greentickbullet.png) no-repeat ;
display:block;
list-style-type:none;
margin-bottom: 13px;
padding-left: 30px;
padding-top:0px;}
</style>

<script type='text/javascript'>
var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
</script>
<script src='http://blogergadgets.googlecode.com/files/related-posts-for-blogger.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<!--Remove--></b:if>
<!--Related Posts Scripts and Styles End-->
</head>

If you want to change the title of your widget you can edit this line of the above code

var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";

If you want you can edit the blue and black colors present in this code 4.Now find this line of code

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

 

If you cant find it then try finding this one

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

 

Now immediately after any of these lines(whichever you could find) place this code snippet

<!-- Related Posts Code Start-->

<!--Remove--><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>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

<script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;max-results=6&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop><a href='http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/08/related-posts-for-blogger-widget.html'><img style="border: 0" alt="Related Posts Widget for Blogger" src="http://image.bloggerplugins.org/blogger-widgets.png" /></a>

<script type='text/javascript'>
var maxresults=5;
removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels(&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;);
</script>
</div>

<!--Remove--></b:if>
<!-- Related Posts Code End-->

 

var maxresults=5;

this line determines the number of related posts that are displayed..and by default 6 posts are fetched from each label.
Now you should have a working related posts widget on your blog.If you want to customize the look and feel,then you can alter the CSS rules.

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