So what am I missing to get the Archive Widget to work?

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  marciesmoments · Member · May 26, 2013 at 12:31 am

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  I have consulted page http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/archives-widget/#settings

  I have the Archive widget in the sidebar. I have both Display as dropdown and Show post counts checked. In Visibility I have Show if Date is All date archives.

  I have Pilcrow Theme, with only Recent Comments and Recent Posts as the other two widgets.

  I have NO Archives on the sidebar of my blog. So what am I missing here?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 26, 2013 at 12:34 am

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  This may seem obvious, but do you have more than one month’s worth of content?

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  marciesmoments · Member · May 26, 2013 at 12:44 am

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  No, first post is April 27th, so I have only 28 days worth.

  So it should start working on May 27th?

  (I would think that would be something worth mentioning on the Support page.)

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  raincoaster · Member · May 26, 2013 at 12:50 am

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  It should show if you have a post in April. Let me take a look.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 26, 2013 at 12:53 am

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  Hmm, I literally can’t find anything unusual on your blog, so I would suspect that yes, it will show up after 30 days. If it doesn’t show up by the 28th, post to this thread again and let me know.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 26, 2013 at 1:13 am

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  Go to appearance > widgets, click on the “archives” widget to open it for editing and then click the “visibility” button and make sure that in the bottom left dropdown, “Select” is selected and save.

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  marciesmoments · Member · May 26, 2013 at 4:04 am

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  Thank you both.

  Thesacredpath’s solution made the widget appear. I had Show if Date is All date archives instead of Show if Select. Apparently WP didn’t like my selection even though it gave me selection options.