How to Make Static Text in WordPress

1. Start your FTP client program and log into your Wordpress installation.
2. Navigate to your 'themes' directory.

3. Make a copy of the file 'index.php' and name it 'index.php.bak' and leave it in the themes directory.
4. Download 'index.php' to your local machine.
5. Open index.php in a text editor, and look for the comment indicating the beginning of The Loop. The Loop can be identified with the following code snippet:

6. Create a blank line in the text file before the beginning of the text that starts The Loop, and enter the following text:
This is some text that will display at the top of the Category page.

7. Replace the text between the
and
tags with what you want to show up on the top of each page.
8. Save 'index.php' and upload it into your themes directory to replace the file that's already there.