My brother thankfully saved my sanity and solved my problem with the WP smartarchives plugin. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why it wouldn’t work. It just plain did not show up at all.  I followed directions as best I could.  I googled and tried out everything that people mentioned. The solution was so simple I could cry. I had an option checked off for WP to correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically. It was putting a space in the code thereby turning it into text. Evil. *bows to bro in eternal thanks* Now I can concentrate on other design issues…