Related Posts Blogger Hack

This is another cool blogger hack that will allow you to increase your page views and also to aid your visitors. This hack consist to show related posts for the following post! Go to templates edit html and click on expand widget templates and copy the whole code inside a plain text editor like notepad. You might consider backing up your template if something runs wrong. Now paste the following in the page header :

<script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var relatedTitles = new Array(); var relatedTitlesNum = 0; var relatedUrls = new Array(); function related_results_labels(json) { for (var i = 0; i < json.feed.entry.length; i ) { var entry = json.feed.entry[i]; relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.title.$t; for (var k = 0; k < entry.link.length; k ) { if (entry.link[k].rel == 'alternate') { relatedUrls[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.link[k].href; relatedTitlesNum ; break; } } } } function removeRelatedDuplicates() { var tmp = new Array(0); var tmp2 = 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]; } } relatedTitles = tmp2; relatedUrls = tmp; } function contains(a, e) { for(var j = 0; j < a.length; j ) if (a[j]==e) return true; return false; } function printRelatedLabels() { var r = Math.floor((relatedTitles.length - 1) * Math.random()); var i = 0; document.write('<ul>'); while (i < relatedTitles.length && i < 20) { document.write('<li><a href="' relatedUrls[r] '">' relatedTitles[r] '</a></li>'); if (r < relatedTitles.length - 1) { r ; } else { r = 0; } i ; } document.write('</ul>'); } //]]> </script> Scroll down to the blog1 widget, and find the following: , and change it to : , <script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" data:label.name "?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;max-results=10"' type='text/javascript'/> Save the code back to your template html and go to page elements and add a new HTML/Javascript widget underneath the main blog posts widget with this code : <script type="text/javascript"> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels(); </script> Now go back to Template -> Edit HTML, check the check box to expand the template code, and find the HTML/Javascript widget you just added. It'll look something like the following. Add the lines in bold: