Title: Inserting static text in categories
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Inserting static text in categories

 *  [seabard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seabard/)
 * (@seabard)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-static-text-in-categories/)
 * I’m trying to place static text at the top of a category and have searched the
   forum, which brought up various solutions. The one that seemed most appropriate
   to my situation was from three years ago, from MichaelH:
 * > Using the WordPress Default Theme, copy wp-content/themes/default/archive.php
   > to wp-content/themes/default/category.php, then edit the file and change:
   > <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   > to
   > <?php echo category_description(); ?>
   >  <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();?
   > >
 * But it doesn’t work for me, so I must have missed something. I’m using the Genesis
   framework with a child theme and can’t edit those files, so I did as suggested
   and edited the category.php file from the default theme Twentytwelve, assuming
   that this controls category functions no matter what the theme.
 * I found it confusing to be adding the archive.php file to the category.php file,
   so I tried inserting the “echo” code in the clean category.php file as well. 
   But nothing works either way.
 * Where am I going wrong? Thanks.

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 * [static text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/static-text/)

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