I need a way to keep my blog post appearing on the home page but also to add some static text at the bottom. And I do not want it in the footer. HOw do I do this? Edit the mainindex.php
Set a page as the home page in the WP Admin. Then use WP Sticky plugin and set it to announcement. This puts a single post always at the top and in most templates this will keep that post from moving off the front page. There are a lot of ways to set up static content in WordPress.
Well I really want to keep it as simple as possible. I want the home page to function as a normal wordpress blog would just with a chunk of text at the bottom above the footer. Can I enter text straight into mainindex.php in the editor portion of the back end?
Use a php include where you want the text to appear. So you would edit the index.php in your template, not the root index.php. <?php include('yourpage.any') ?> PHP: Obviously, don't forget to create the include page and remember to set the path. The example I've given shows the path if the include page was in 'root' but if you want to put it anywhere else you would need to set the path: e.g. <?php include('/newfolder/yourpage.any') ?> PHP: or <?php include('wp-content/themes/yourtheme/yourpage.any') ?> PHP: