Related posts widget with thumbnails

, Posted by ngsk at 8:43 AM

You might be cng lot types of Related Posts widgets. As some will display only the text links where as some displayed thumbnails of the related posts.

For u here i came with up a widget with thumbnails which will really suits ur blogger templates and will not show duplicate entries.

to add this widget to ur blog follow these steps.

1) Login to ur blogger account and place below code exactly <Head> tag

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<style type='text/css'>
#related-posts {
float:center;
text-transform:none;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
padding-top:5px;
padding-left:5px;
}

#related-posts h2{
font-size: 1.6em;
font-weight: bold;
color: black;
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
margin-bottom: 0.75em;
margin-top: 0em;
padding-top: 0em;
}
#related-posts a{
color:black;
}
#related-posts a:hover{
color:black;
}

#related-posts  a:hover {
background-color:#d4eaf2;
}
</style>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[

//Script by Aneesh of www.bloggerplugins.org
//Released on August 19th August 2009
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.$t;
try 
{thumburl[relatedTitlesNum]=entry.media$thumbnail.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/AVvXsEinbmlBXdPt2jaZvh7OFc8OJ2pqNc9x4d0VOskkO3ghQbs88u6LmEnx2MMcJzwGIk1tgOBebbAdYh7EZ7lkOuzKzXWGFmEQ0Wk6B-bPf7lmdFQWy-0DAWyikhD8Cmk7TP7xYj-XQ9Y3gCVK/';




}

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);

}
}


var r = Math.floor((relatedTitles.length - 1) * Math.random());
var i = 0;

if(relatedTitles.length>0) document.write('<h2>'+relatedpoststitle+'</h2>');
document.write('<div style="clear: both;"/>');
while (i < relatedTitles.length && i < 20 && i<maxresults) {


document.write('<a style="text-decoration:none;padding:5px;float:left;');
if(i!=0) document.write('border-left:solid 0.5px #d4eaf2;"');
else document.write('"');
document.write(' href="' + relatedUrls[r] + '"><img style="width:72px;height:72px;border:0px;" src="'+thumburl[r]+'"/><br/><div style="width:72px;padding-left:3px;height:65px;border: 0pt none ; margin: 3px 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">'+relatedTitles[r]+'</div></a>');


if (r < relatedTitles.length - 1) {
r++;
} else {
r = 0;
}
i++;
}
document.write('</div>');

}

//]]>
</script>

</b:if>

2) Now just place below code at the place where u want to show ur related posts, may be at sidebar and mostly u will like to past it at the fotter of the post.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div id='related-posts'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&max-results=6"' type='text/javascript'/></b:if></b:loop><a href='http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/08/related-posts-thumbnails-blogger-widget.html' style='display:none;'>Related Posts with thumbnails for blogger</a><a href='http://www.bloggerplugins.org/' style='display:none;'>blogger tutorials</a>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var currentposturl="<data:post.url/>";
var maxresults=5;
var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs();
</script>
</div><div style='clear:both'/>
</b:if>

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