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Please read the whole question before assuming this question is repeated. After one day of trying plugins and tutorials, I am convinced that there is no straightforward method of achieving what I am trying.

Basically I am building a site that has different components: Blog, News and Gallery, they are all items in the menu. I am trying to have different archive widgets for all of them. So, when I go to News I can see my Archive Widget that just organizes information for News. The same for Blog or Gallery.

What have I tried?

  1. get_archives: there is no category parameter for get_archive

  2. Categories::

    2.1 getarchives_join and getarchives_where filters: They work well when is just one archive. Then you can modify the query one archive. Problem: I need more than one archive

    2.2 adding templates, template_include filter and global variable: this allowed me to have a global variable with the corresponding template name (category-blog.php, category-news.php and category-archive.php). With those names I could change the getarchives_where accordingly. Problem: This almost work until I realized that the widget links for the archive point to something like mysite.com/2012/02 and use a different common template 'archive.php' (see 3 for using custom post type).

    2.3 category in permalink and ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']): this is more elegant than grabbing the permalink mysite.com/2012/02 to something like mysite.com/news/2012/02. Then I can use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in the getarchives_where. Problem: I have no idea how to modify the mysite.com/2012/02. I research, get_month_link and get_year_link. There is no category parameter.

  3. Using custom post type:: Obviously I needed archive-news.php, archive-blog.php and archive-gallery.php and add to my getarchives_where of 2.2. I crashed into Custom Post Type. I created and register the three custom post types: Blog, News and Gallery.

    3.1 The has_archive delusion: The parameter was there and I was convinced I got it. So I went to the news archive (mysite.com/news) and the archive was there. It worked on the right side displaying the news. The problem: The archive widget was still displaying the normal posts.

    3.2 adding the archive templates to the template_include filter and global variable: This is similar to 2.2 but with archive-blog.php and archive-gallery.php. Problem: Exactly the same as 2.2. The widget links for the archive point to something like mysite.com/2012/02 and again using the the default common template 'archive.php' instead of the ones I created.

  4. Plugins: I don't want to use a plugin for this but I did and didn't work.

    4.1. jquery-archive-list-widget: almost work except it works with exclude categories instead of include them. Problem: The link is still mysite/2012/20/. I am about to modify this plugin but I am still

    4.2. I tried a few others with less success.

How do I have different archive widgets according to category/post_type that appears according to the page I am?

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I finally found an answer using Wordpress rewrites. The whole code is at the end and can be pasted in functions.php. There is just one parameter that you have to change $rules = cpt_generate_date_archives('news', $wp_rewrite); news is the name of the post_type. So I added a second line to show how to have two archives.

The code also includes the function get_cpt_archives( 'news', true ) that prints (second parameter) a list (<li> based) to add as a sidebar.

/**
 * Custom post type date archives
 */

/**
 * Custom post type specific rewrite rules
 * @return wp_rewrite             Rewrite rules handled by Wordpress
 */
function cpt_rewrite_rules($wp_rewrite) {
    $rules = cpt_generate_date_archives('news', $wp_rewrite);
    $rules = cpt_generate_date_archives('gallery', $wp_rewrite);
    $wp_rewrite->rules = $rules + $wp_rewrite->rules;
    return $wp_rewrite;
}
add_action('generate_rewrite_rules', 'cpt_rewrite_rules');

/**
 * Generate date archive rewrite rules for a given custom post type
 * @param  string $cpt        slug of the custom post type
 * @return rules              returns a set of rewrite rules for Wordpress to handle
 */
function cpt_generate_date_archives($cpt, $wp_rewrite) {
    $rules = array();

    $post_type = get_post_type_object($cpt);
    $slug_archive = $post_type->has_archive;
    if ($slug_archive === false) return $rules;
    if ($slug_archive === true) {
        $slug_archive = $post_type->name;
    }

    $dates = array(
        array(
            'rule' => "([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})",
            'vars' => array('year', 'monthnum', 'day')),
        array(
            'rule' => "([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})",
            'vars' => array('year', 'monthnum')),
        array(
            'rule' => "([0-9]{4})",
            'vars' => array('year'))
        );

    foreach ($dates as $data) {
        $query = 'index.php?post_type='.$cpt;
        $rule = $slug_archive.'/'.$data['rule'];

        $i = 1;
        foreach ($data['vars'] as $var) {
            $query.= '&'.$var.'='.$wp_rewrite->preg_index($i);
            $i++;
        }

        $rules[$rule."/?$"] = $query;
        $rules[$rule."/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$"] = $query."&feed=".$wp_rewrite->preg_index($i);
        $rules[$rule."/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$"] = $query."&feed=".$wp_rewrite->preg_index($i);
        $rules[$rule."/page/([0-9]{1,})/?$"] = $query."&paged=".$wp_rewrite->preg_index($i);
    }
    return $rules;
}

/**
 * Get a montlhy archive list for a custom post type
 * @param  string  $cpt  Slug of the custom post type
 * @param  boolean $echo Whether to echo the output
 * @return array         Return the output as an array to be parsed on the template level
 */
function get_cpt_archives( $cpt, $echo = false )
{
    global $wpdb; 
    $sql = $wpdb->prepare("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = %s AND post_status = 'publish' GROUP BY YEAR(wp_posts.post_date), MONTH(wp_posts.post_date) ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC", $cpt);
    $results = $wpdb->get_results($sql);

    if ( $results )
    {
        $archive = array();
        foreach ($results as $r)
        {
            $year = date('Y', strtotime( $r->post_date ) );
            $month = date('F', strtotime( $r->post_date ) );
            $month_num = date('m', strtotime( $r->post_date ) );
            $link = get_bloginfo('siteurl') . '/' . $cpt . '/' . $year . '/' . $month_num;
            $this_archive = array( 'month' => $month, 'year' => $year, 'link' => $link );
            array_push( $archive, $this_archive );
        }

        if( !$echo )
            return $archive;
        foreach( $archive as $a )
        {
            echo '<li><a href="' . $a['link'] . '">' . $a['month'] . ' ' . $a['year'] . '</a></li>';
        }
    }
    return false;
}
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