How to add more text under the blog category title in California theme?

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Topic summary

A user wants to add descriptive text between the blog category title and the post listings in the California theme, but standard text boxes either appear above the title or below all posts.

Proposed Solutions (both require code editing):

  1. Direct liquid file editing: Manually insert HTML paragraph tags (<p>, <h1>) directly into the blog liquid template file. This approach is harder to maintain since updates require code changes.

  2. Multi-step workaround:

    • Locate and comment out the existing blog title code in the theme’s blog liquid file
    • Return to the theme customizer and add a Custom Liquid block above the Blog block to restore the title
    • Add a Custom Content block below the Custom Liquid block for the descriptive text

Note: A blog filter app developer mentions this is a common theme design limitation that creates awkward content hierarchy. The user plans to attempt the suggested solutions.

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This is due to the theme design is not taking in consideration of situation like this. Our blog filter app also constantly bump into this issue, which creates a really weird content hierarchy.

Some possible solutions (both require tinkling with the code)

If you are familiar with code, you can manually insert the paragraph into the liquid file (with

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tags etc), it requires some digging as to where / which file to insert. The downside is that it is harder to maintain, as you need to go into the code to update.

Another way (multi steps):

  1. Go to your theme code - look for the blog liquid file, and identify the piece of code that generates the blog title (ie Latest News in your screenshot).

  2. Copy that code, before commenting them out with {%comment%} {%endcomment%}

  3. Your blog title should now be hidden.

  4. Go back to your theme customiser, add a Custom Liquid block and insert the code copied in step 2 above, make sure it is above the Blog block. This will add the blog title back.

  5. Now you can add the Custom Content block below this Custom Liquid block.

Below is a screenshot. Note your files/ codes might look different as it is a different theme from mine.

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