Help with Listing Archives in Sidebar

[Gaurav]

Fixed. For those interested in the solution and the cause of the problem:

the call to wp_get_archives() was being done inside an if block in this case which was not being executed (the condition being the absence of dynamic_sidebar() )

Hence to overcome this problem, we can use the `widget_archives_args` hook and add a filter accordingly. Therefore in functions.php

/* Limit the archive to 8 months
--------------------------------- */
function limit_archive($args) {
    $args['limit'] = 8;
    return $args;
}
add_filter('widget_archives_args', 'limit_archive');