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I wrote a previous blog post about How To Add Related Posts Widget To Blogger With Thumbnails.We already know the importance of the widget, but in this tutorial I'll show you the best related posts widget to your blog , If you want to add this widget to your blog please follow me:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard --> Template

2. Please! download a copy of your template
3. Now click on Edit HTML
4. Use Ctrl+F to find </head>

5. Then copy and paste the below code just above/before it ( </head> ):

//<![CDATA[

var relatedTitles = new Array();

var relatedUrls = new Array();

var relatedpSummary = new Array();

var relatedThumb = new Array();

var relatedTitlesNum = 0;

var relatedPostsNum = 4; // number of entries to be shown

var relatedmaxnum = 75; // the number of characters of summary

var relatednoimage = "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhME9WIA9ivRWJxo_PluNEri6xSzmY8mKF_9wM0kMII3B_ThqQQq5gZVec5gYqFXUHuBO4m1CQKHRCxxbOetX8sXhvSdGxH828xcAARsqX6x9toVsngf4opXfLqi9JTrSV_I8_h2e-gMH9X/s1600/no_image.jpg"; // default picture for entries with no image

function readpostlabels(json) {

var entry, postimg, postcontent, cat;

for (var i = 0; i < json.feed.entry.length; i++) {

entry = json.feed.entry[i];

if (i==json.feed.entry.length) { break; }

relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.title.$t;

postcontent = "";

if ("content" in entry) {

postcontent = entry.content.$t;

} else if ("summary" in entry) {

postcontent = entry.summary.$t;

}

relatedpSummary[relatedTitlesNum] = removetags(postcontent,relatedmaxnum);

if ("media$thumbnail" in entry) {

postimg = entry.media$thumbnail.url;

} else {

postimg = relatednoimage;

}

relatedThumb[relatedTitlesNum] = postimg;

for (var k = 0; k < entry.link.length; k++) {

if (entry.link[k].rel == 'alternate') {

relatedUrls[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.link[k].href;

break;

}

relatedTitlesNum++;

}

function showrelated() {

var tmp = new Array(0);

var tmp2 = new Array(0);

var tmp3 = new Array(0);

var tmp4 = new Array(0);

for(var i = 0; i < relatedUrls.length; i++) {

if(!contains(tmp, relatedUrls[i])) {

tmp.length += 1; tmp[tmp.length - 1] = relatedUrls[i];

tmp2.length += 1; tmp2[tmp2.length - 1] = relatedTitles[i];

tmp3.length += 1; tmp3[tmp3.length - 1] = relatedpSummary[i];

tmp4.length += 1; tmp4[tmp4.length - 1] = relatedThumb[i];

}

relatedTitles = tmp2; relatedUrls = tmp; relatedpSummary = tmp3; relatedThumb = tmp4;

for(var i = 0; i < relatedTitles.length; i++){

var index = Math.floor((relatedTitles.length - 1) * Math.random());

var tempTitle = relatedTitles[i]; var tempUrls = relatedUrls[i];

var tempResum = relatedpSummary[i]; var tempImage = relatedThumb[i];

relatedTitles[i] = relatedTitles[index]; relatedUrls[i] = relatedUrls[index];

relatedpSummary[i] = relatedpSummary[index]; relatedThumb[i] = relatedThumb[index];

relatedTitles[index] = tempTitle; relatedUrls[index] = tempUrls;

relatedpSummary[index] = tempResum; relatedThumb[index] = tempImage;

}

var somePosts = 0;

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

var relsump = r;

var output;

var dirURL = document.URL;

while (somePosts < relatedPostsNum) {

if (relatedUrls[r] != dirURL) {

output = "<div class='relatedsumposts'>";

output += "<a href='" + relatedUrls[r] + "' rel='nofollow' target='_self' title='" + relatedTitles[r] + "'><img src='" + relatedThumb[r] + "' /></a>";

output += "<h6><a href='" + relatedUrls[r] + "' target='_self'>" + relatedTitles[r] + "</a></h6>";

output += "<p>" + relatedpSummary[r] + " ... </p>";

output += "</div>";

document.write(output);

somePosts++;

if (somePosts == relatedPostsNum) { break; }

}

if (r < relatedTitles.length - 1) {

r++;

} else {

r = 0;

}

if(r==relsump) { break; }

}

function removetags(text,length){

var pSummary = text.split("<");

for(var i=0;i<pSummary.length;i++){

if(pSummary[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){

pSummary[i] = pSummary[i].substring(pSummary[i].indexOf(">")+1,pSummary[i].length);

}

pSummary = pSummary.join("");

pSummary = pSummary.substring(0,length-1);

return pSummary;

}

function contains(a, e) {

for(var j = 0; j < a.length; j++) if (a[j]==e) return true;

return false;

}

//]]>

</script>

Note:

- To change the default picture, replace the URL in pink with your own
- For displaying more than 4 posts or less, replace , modify the value in red (4)
- To change the number of characters to be shown in posts summary, modify the value in blue (75)

5. Now Search the following code:

6. Just after it, copy and paste the below code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

</b:if>

7. Now find the following code:

</b:includable>
<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'>

8. Then copy and paste the below code just above/before it

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<div id='relatedpostssum'><div style='text-align: left; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold;'>RELATED POSTS</div>

</div>

</div>

</b:if>

9. Finally search for this tag: ]]></b:skin>

10. Add below CSS code just above it,

<relatedsumposts {

float: left;

margin: 0px 5px;

overflow: hidden;

text-align: center;

/* width and height of the related posts area */

width: 120px;

height: 210px;

}

.relatedsumposts:hover {

background-color: #F3F3F3; -webkit-border-radius: 10px;

-moz-border-radius: 10px;

border-radius: 10px;

}

.relatedsumposts img:hover {

-khtml-opacity:0.4;

-moz-opacity:0.4;

opacity:0.4;

}

.relatedsumposts a {

/* link properties */

color: #linkcolor;

display: inline;

font-size: 10px;

line-height: 1;

}

.relatedsumposts img {

/* thumbnail properties */

margin-top: 2px;

height: 82px;

padding: 5px;

width: 82px;

border: 1px solid #fff;

-webkit-border-radius: 100px;

-moz-border-radius: 100px;

border-radius: 100px;

-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);

-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);

box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);

}

.relatedsumposts h6 {

/* title properties */

display: table-cell;

height: 5em;

margin: 5px 0 0;

overflow: hidden;

padding-bottom: 2px;

vertical-align: middle;

width: 130px;

}

.relatedsumposts p {

/* summary properties */

border-top: 1px dotted #777777;

border-bottom: 1px dotted #777777;

color: #summarycolor;

font-size: 10px;

height: 4em;

line-height: 1;

margin: 5px 0 0;

overflow: hidden;

padding: 5px 0 15px 0;

text-align: left;

}

Note:

-Modify the values in red to adjust the width (120) and height (210) of the widget area

-Replace #linkcolor with the hex value of your color to change the color of post titles

-To change the size of thumbnails, modify the values marked in pink (82)

-To determine the border roundness, modify the values in green (100)

-To change the color of the post snippet, change #summarycolor with color hex value

11. Now take a preview and save your template.

In this tutorial,I am going to explain how to configure a navigation menu of a template.This tutorial Not Only for below navigation menu configuration,But Also this will helpful to configure any CSS navigation menu.

For example lets look at how to configure below navigation menu.

Login to your Blogger Dashboard --> Design --> Edit HTML.

Find the word "Entertainment".(using Ctrl+F keys)

You can see like this code:

Change the name "Entertainment" if you want.In this example I do not change the name "Blogger Templates",Because I have a Blogger Templates URL.

Replace "#" mark with the URL you want to go when click on the name "Blogger Templates".

My Blogger Templates URL is "http://newpremiumthems.blogspot.com/"

So I replace "#" mark with the my Blogger Templates URL.After doing this it will look like this:

Now I have configured "Blogger Templates" link of above navigation menu.Other links (Contact,Support,About) configurations are also same to this method.So you can configure all navigation links very easily.

Note : You do not need to change "Home" URL,because it is automatically linked to your homepage.

After doing this changes save your template.