Related posts widget with title and comments number hovering effect

Related posts widget with title and comments number hovering effect | In today tutorial I will show you how to add a related post widget bellow your post. I received many comments about this so finally I decided to post the tutorial. It a very nice widget with a little hover effect meaning when you hover on a related post it will show both the title and the comments number you have received on that post. You can see a demo on my blog just scroll to the bottom of this post.

How to create nice related post widget?

1. Log in to your Dashboard--> Template- -> Edit HTML

2. Click on "Expand Widget Templates"

3. Search "Ctrl+F" and find ]]></b:skin>. Before it paste the code:

/* Related Post Widget */

#related-posts{
float:left;
height:160px;
margin-bottom:10px; 
outline: 1px solid #fff;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
background: #f9fafb;
}

#related-posts h3{
    font-family: Francois One;
    font-size:20px;
    font-weight:400;
    color: #222222;
    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
    margin-top: 0.5em;
    margin-left: 0.5em;;
    padding-top: 0em;
}

#related-posts ul{
margin:5px;
width:613px;
padding-left:17px;
list-style:none;
display:block;
}
#related-posts ul li{
list-style:none;
position:relative;
float:left;
border:0 none;
margin-right:11px;
padding:2px;
width:86px;
}


#related-posts ul li:hover{z-index:100}
#related-posts ul li:hover img{border:3px solid #BBB}


#related-posts ul li:hover div{
font-size:7px;
text-transform:capitalize;
position:absolute;
top:20px;
left:-15px;
margin-left:0;
width:130px
}
#related-posts ul li img{
border:3px solid #DDD;
width:80px;
height:80px;
background:#FFF;
display:block;
}
#related-posts ul li div{
position:absolute;
z-index:99;
margin-left:-999em
}
#related-posts ul li .title{
text-align:center;
border:1px dotted #CCC;
background:#fff;
padding:5px 10px
}

You can play with the values on the CSS to align better in your page , or to change the dimension of the widget, change the font etc.

4. Find the  <data:post.body/> and after it paste the next code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div id='related-posts'>
<script type='text/javascript'>var ry=&#39;<h3>Other Tutorials For You To See:</h3>&#39;;rn=&#39;<h3>No Related Posts </h3>&#39;;rcomment=&#39;Comment&#39;;rdisable=&#39;Comments off&#39;;commentYN=&#39;yes&#39;;</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
var nothumb='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_u7a1IFxc4WI/TTjruHJjcfI/AAAAAAAAAk0/i11Oj6i_bHY/no-image.png';dw='';titles=new Array();titlesNum=0;urls=new Array();time=new Array();thumb=new Array();commentsNum=new Array();comments=new Array();function related_results_labels(c){for(var b=0;b<c.feed.entry.length;b++){var d=c.feed.entry[b];titles[titlesNum]=d.title.$t;for(var a=0;a<d.link.length;a++){if('thr$total' in d){commentsNum[titlesNum]=d.thr$total.$t+' '+rcomment}else{commentsNum[titlesNum]=rdisable};if(d.link[a].rel=="alternate"){urls[titlesNum]=d.link[a].href;time[titlesNum]=d.published.$t;if('media$thumbnail' in d){thumb[titlesNum]=d.media$thumbnail.url}else{thumb[titlesNum]=nothumb};titlesNum++;break}}}}function removeRelatedDuplicates(){var b=new Array(0);c=new Array(0);e=new Array(0);f=new Array(0);g=new Array(0);for(var a=0;a<urls.length;a++){if(!contains(b,urls[a])){b.length+=1;b[b.length-1]=urls[a];c.length+=1;c[c.length-1]=titles[a];e.length+=1;e[e.length-1]=time[a];f.length+=1;f[f.length-1]=thumb[a];g.length+=1;g[g.length-1]=commentsNum[a]}}urls=b;titles=c;time=e;thumb=f;commentsNum=g}function contains(b,d){for(var c=0;c<b.length;c++){if(b[c]==d){return true}}return false}function printRelatedLabels(a){for(var b=0;b<urls.length;b++){if(urls[b]==a){urls.splice(b,1);titles.splice(b,1);time.splice(b,1);thumb.splice(b,1);commentsNum.splice(b,1)}}var c=Math.floor((titles.length-1)*Math.random());var b=0;if(titles.length==0){dw+=rn}else{dw+=ry;dw+='<ul>';while(b<titles.length&&b<20&&b<maxresults){if(commentYN=='yes'){comments[c]=' - '+commentsNum[c]}else{comments[c]=''};dw+='<li><a href="'+urls[c]+'" rel="nofollow"><img alt="'+titles[c]+'" src="'+thumb[c]+'"/></a><div class="title"><a href="'+urls[c]+'" rel="nofollow"><h2>'+titles[c]+'</h2></a><span>'+time[c].substring(8,10)+'/'+time[c].substring(5,7)+'/'+time[c].substring(0,4)+comments[c]+'</span></div></li>';if(c<titles.length-1){c++}else{c=0}b++}dw+='</ul>'};urls.splice(0,urls.length);titles.splice(0,titles.length);document.getElementById('related-posts').innerHTML=dw};
//]]>
</script>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&quot;' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:loop>
<script type='text/javascript'>var maxresults=6;removeRelatedDuplicates();printRelatedLabels(&#39;<data:post.url/>&#39;);</script>
</div>
<div style='clear both'/>
</b:if>

Save your template and see the result.

Source artistutorial.blogspot.com