Adding content next to the secondary navigation and best practices

[alipica]

Hello,

I've only been working with the Genesis framework for a shot period of time and I apologize in advance if I've not quite wrapped my head around some of the concepts. That said, I'm having trouble achieving the effect I want. I'm using a plugin that turns my secondary page menu into the primary page sub navigation. I need a widget area and subnav-container to be on every page but I'll be removing the subnav itself from pages that don't need it. I need it to be structured more or less like this:
<div id="subnav-container">
<div class="wrap">
[Widget Text Area]
[Secondary Navigation] (not on every page)
</div>
</div>
In writing the above, I realized that I could probably do this by changing the genesis_do_subnav function found in genesis/lib/structure/menu.php. I ended up adding 'before' and 'after' args to the array. This seems to have done the trick and now I can style and float the areas so they sit next to each other.

The only problem I see now is that I've modified a genesis file rather than a child theme file. How can I move these changes to the child theme so that they overwrite genesis? I've tried adding it to the child theme using the same file structure. Is there a best-practice way to do this that I haven't discovered yet?

[alipica]

Alright, it appears that adding the before and after args to genesis_do_subnav didn't actually add the html to the page, but it did add the sidebar widget area. Is there a way to echo it onto the page? One of the args says 'echo'  => 0. I'm not sure what the 0 is specifying. Any help?

My args looked like this:

'before'         => '<div id="subnav-container"><div class="wrap"><div class="inner-menu">' .dynamic_sidebar( 'subnav-content' ). '</div>'

'after'             => '</div></div>'

Obviously, it didn't work. I've been researching filters, but I'm still not confident on how to use them. Would a filter be a better method for this?

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