Add Related Posts Widget in Blogger / Blogspot Blogs

There is a reader of this blog who asked Kang Rohman on how to make a Related Post Widget in blogger. Well…can we make it? Don’t worry because I can make it for you and it is easy.

There are some advantages by adding related post widget in our blog; the readers will be able to find the articles that relate to the article they reading and it also gives an advantage for the blow owner because the readers can stay in the blog longer.

• Go to Layout >Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.
• Back up your existing Template before making any changes!
• Make sure to check the "Expand Widget Templates" box.
• Search for the </head> tag.
• Add the following code just before the </head>tag

<style>
#related-posts {
float : left;
width : 540px;
margin-top:20px;
margin-left : 5px;
margin-bottom:20px;
font : 11px Verdana;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
#related-posts .widget {
list-style-type : none;
margin : 5px 0 5px 0;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 {
font-size : 20px;
font-weight : normal;
margin : 5px 7px 0;
padding : 0 0 5px;
}
#related-posts a {
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts a:hover {
text-decoration : none;
}
#related-posts ul {
border : medium none;
margin : 10px;
padding : 0;
}
#related-posts ul li {
display : block;
background : url("http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg328/kajarangithan/022.png") no-repeat 0 0;
margin : 0;
padding-top : 0;
padding-right : 0;
padding-bottom : 1px;
padding-left : 21px;
margin-bottom : 5px;
line-height : 2em;
border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc;
}
</style>
<script src='http://tamil-tech.99k.org/Related_posts.js' type='text/javascript'/>

• Now search for <p><data:post.body/></p>. In some of the templates this code may look like this <div class='post-body>
• Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div id="related-posts">
<font face='Arial' size='3'><b>Related Posts : </b></font><font color='#FFFFFF'><b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><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=5&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop> </font>
<script type='text/javascript'> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels();
</script>
</div></b:if>

• Now Save your Template and you're done!