Displaying the links to related posts along with a thumbnail of the corresponding post will help you increase the page views/user .Users will be tempted to go for the related posts when they are presented attractively with thumbnails.
This is another first release from me.This one also uses
the media thumbnails generated by
blogger for each post.
For displaying the thumbnails,this widget will use the images uploaded for
the post using the blogger image uploader(from the post editor) [
Update - Now supports external images also.]
Related Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger
Here are the detailed installation steps
1.First of all Login to your blogger dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML and check the "ExpandWidget Templates" check box
2.Now look for
and replace it with
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles Start-->
<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 src='http://blogergadgets.googlecode.com/files/relatedthumbs21.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>
<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts and Styles End-->
</head>
3.Now Find
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
If you cant find it then try finding this one
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
Now immediately after any of these lines(whichever you could find) place this code snippet
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code Start-->
<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>
<!-- Related Posts with Thumbnails Code End-->
4.You can adjust the maximum number of related posts being displayed by editing this line in the code.
5.To edit the title of the widget you can change this line of code
var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";
To change the colors and all you will have to modify the CSS
If you fall into troubles implementing this,don't panic.. :) .just leave me a comment here and i will help you out. If you like to give me any suggestions on how
to improve this widget,then it would be
really great.
If you need a demo just check the related post thumbnails below this post. If you liked this widget,please do
retweet and spread
the news. :).
UPDATE: Fixed the chrome Issue.So if you installed the widget before seeing this,then please update the widget.. :)
source:
BLOGGERPLUGINS 
