2alex

Thanks Dave,

but was more thinking about the cool frontpage slider option “Auto-generated slider from your blog posts” if this is also possible with pages instead.

Thanks Michale awesome fast answer. Stupid noob question copy/paste where?
Maybe my scenario helps to better understand what I am after see this topic Showing CPT description in archive

$obj = get_post_type_object( 'my_post_type' );
echo $obj->description;

Sorry for this noob question how could I add this in the functions.php of my child theme? On a custom post type archive I want to show the description of the custom post type below the archive title. The custom posts are showing up fine.

@kentog
Depends what you want to achieve.
When you have the category, e.g. “donuts” and assign posts to it the archive/category page is automatically available for each category via https://domain.com/category/donuts e.g. https://demo.presscustomizr.com/category/uncategorized/
The look and feel you can customize a lot very comfortable in the WordPress Theme admin > content > post lists Grid vs alternative post listing, number of posts, excerpt, etc. see https://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/108-customizr-theme-options-post-lists-blog-grid-archives
Everything which goes beyond that needs a Theme customization.

Maybe my own topic is interesting for you too as it is exactly about the Theme customization [Theme Customizr] Posts on Page best practice