adding a fixed text area on the homepage

You can do this through code. If you’re still interested start by creating a Child Theme.

I am interested and I do have a child theme.
can you guide me through?
thank you.

Copy index.php from the theme and paste it into your Child Theme directory.

and then?

Edit index.php from within your Child Theme.

Do you see this line:

get_header(); ?>

?

I do.

Just underneath it add this:

<p></p>

Then after the <p> enter your text.
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_paragraphs.asp

??
I thought of something more dynamic than this.
To add and area that displays text from a widget or post.

any ideas how I can add a specific post or something else as text on the homepage – above the circles?
thank you.

Try getting the post by the post’s ID https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_post

I thought of something more dynamic than this.
To add and area that displays text from a widget or post.

Can you talk through how you did this? There’s someone here who wants to do the same thing and I want to link that person your solution.

I’ve added this code to my child-theme copy of index.php:

<?php
$post_id = 26;
$queried_post = get_post($post_id);
?>
<h2><?php echo $queried_post->post_title; ?></h2>
<h4><?php echo $queried_post->post_content; ?></h4>

and then I marked post id 26 as private so that it won’t appear in the circles on that home page.

however, I am looking for other ways of implementing this – not using a post. would love to hear any ideas.

What other content do you want to get?

I would prefer not using a post for it.
perhaps adding a text widget area there would be better.

Didn’t you already do this 4 weeks ago when you posted this:

I thought of something more dynamic than this.
To add and area that displays text from a widget or post.

?