For the archive widget, there are two options either show the list of all the months or display them within a dropdown box. If it were listed as months, that would be a very long list.
Is it possible to show a hierarchy of years, so users click on the year and the months drop down? For instance:
>2014
> December
> November
> October
> …etc…
>2013
>2012
>2011
>2010
Hey James!
Please try using this plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-archives-widget/ or a similar one
Regards,
Yigit