Title: Help editing index.php
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Help editing index.php

 *  [Daniel Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel-johnson/)
 * (@daniel-johnson)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-indexphp/)
 * Hello,
 * I am getting deeper and deeper into the world of WordPress and I am trying to
   achieve something I have not tried before.
 * My goal is:
 * In my reading settings I have set my Blog page to the page I want my blog.
 * However, that means that any content added to this particularly page, is overridden
   by your posts. Every other page of my site has a logo and title I make by using
   Visual Composer. I would like to be able to have this logo and title visible 
   above the posts on the blog page.
 * I did my research and found an article which gave me some coding I could add 
   to my themes index.php file. I tried adding the code but got an error message.
 * Having never worked with php files I am not sure where to add it amongst the 
   text that is already there.
 * This is the code I found:
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( 'page' == get_option('show_on_front') && get_option('page_for_posts') && is_home() ) : the_post();
       	$page_for_posts_id = get_option('page_for_posts');
       	setup_postdata(get_page($page_for_posts_id));
       ?>
       	<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="page">
       		<div class="entry-content">
       			<?php the_content(); ?>
       			<?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', '', $page_for_posts_id); ?>
       		</div>
       	</div>
       <?php
       	rewind_posts();
       endif;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * and this is the what is currently in the index.php file I believe I need to edit:
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       // =============================================================================
       // VIEWS/ETHOS/WP-INDEX.PHP
       // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
       // Index page output for Ethos.
       // =============================================================================
   
       $is_filterable_index = is_home() && x_get_option( 'x_ethos_filterable_index_enable', '' ) == '1';
   
       ?>
   
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
         <div class="x-container max width main">
   
           <?php x_get_view( 'ethos', '_post', 'slider' ); ?>
   
           <div class="offset cf">
             <div class="<?php x_main_content_class(); ?>" role="main">
   
               <?php if ( $is_filterable_index ) : ?>
                 <?php x_get_view( 'ethos', '_index' ); ?>
               <?php else : ?>
                 <?php x_get_view( 'global', '_index' ); ?>
               <?php endif; ?>
   
             </div>
   
             <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
           </div>
         </div>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * Could anyone advise me on how where to add the new code within this file.
 * Thank you,
 * Daniel

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-indexphp/)
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