title: Wordpress / PHP - How to show a page description
body: <p>I'm new to template editing in wordpress and I'm trying to get a page description to show up on my site but it is not appearing. The URL I'm trying to get to display the description is here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://fourwallsla.com/category/the-neighborhood/east-side/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://fourwallsla.com/category/the-neighborhood/east-side/</a></p>
  
  <p>and I've attached the screenshot of the page description within wordpress. It appears to be using the archive template (why is it not using the page template?). </p>
  
  <p>Here's some of the code for the archive template:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="main"&gt;
  &lt;?php if (have_posts()) : $first = true; ?&gt;
      &lt;?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?&gt;
      &lt;?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php single_cat_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;?php /* If this is a tag archive */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php single_tag_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php echo get_the_time('F jS, Y'); ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php echo get_the_time('F, Y'); ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php echo get_the_time('Y'); ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;?php /* If this is an author archive */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php _e( 'Author Archive', 'gray_white_black' ); ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;?php /* If this is a paged archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) &amp;&amp; !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php _e( 'Blog Archives', 'gray_white_black' ); ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;?php } ?&gt;
  
      &lt;ul class="post-list"&gt;
      &lt;?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where, in the code above, the_post(), appropriately, refers to the content for the home listing within the category displayed on the page. But how do I get the_post() for the page itself, shown in the screenshot? Thanks.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJy1o.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>