Adding static content to Wordpress posts page?

Question

I know I have a static page for my home page in Wordpress. I also have a page called "Rate Entries" as my blog page. After showing this to my client, and then showing her the admin section of Wordpress, she began typing a paragraph into Pages >> All Pages >> "Rate Entries" >> Edit. The big problem here, as you all know, is that if "Rate Entries" is my posts page, that page content does not show there, only the posts. Is there any way to add that page content to the top of the posts page? I had hoped to find a plugin to do this, but to no avail.

Accepted Answer

Assuming you've set a custom page for the posts in the Wordpress backend (Settings > Reading), you just need to add a few lines of code to your index.php file in your theme. Like so:

```
//grab the id of the page set in the backend 
$posts_page_id = get_option('page_for_posts');

//grab the post object related to that id
$posts_page = get_post($posts_page_id);

//display the content if any
if( $posts_page->post_content ){
    echo wpautop( $posts_page->post_content ); //uses wpautop to automatically add paragraphs
}
```

In your case, you can add the code to display the loop below this code.

Hope this helps!

Adding static content to Wordpress posts page?

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