How to properly handle genesis page template files

[Konspaul]

This post relates to this question: http://www.studiopress.community/topic/how-to-add-specific-menu-on-a-specific-page-or-pages/

But I wanted to start a new post in a hope that someone would explain how to properly handle Genesis template files and why they differ from normal WordPress page template files?

I asked this question about how to set a menu for specific page here https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/253353/how-to-add-specific-menu-on-a-specific-page-or-pages and got really good answer to use the WordPress template files.

I noticed that Genesis child theme template file looks somewhat stripped, only having this code:

// This file handles pages, but only exists for the sake of child theme forward compatibility.
genesis();

So after preparing my template files and setting the page template from WordPress admin panel I wrote my code under this genesis(); code only to notice that my code is not working.

My code:

 //* Register submenu Koti ja asuminen

add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'add_koti_ja_asuminen_valikko' );

function add_koti_ja_asuminen_valikko() {
	echo'<div class="osastot-submenus"><span>Näytetään »</span>';
	wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'koti-ja-asuminen-valikko', 'container_class' => 'genesis-nav-menu js-superfish sf-js-enabled sf-arrows' ) );
	echo'</div>';
}

For me PHP coding is more or less try-and-error method so I pasted my code above the genesis(); code in my template files. And now it works! I don't know why. Maybe someone here could explain how to properly handle genesis template files? Normally you could just type single line "add_action" code but in this case I had to use the function as well.

[Victor Font]

This is a timing issue. The genesis() function is the heart of the framework and is responsible for everything related to rendering your site. If you place a call to genesis_entry_header after genesis() executes, it will never work because all of the add_actions relative to the genesis_entry_header hook have already been run. Adding something like a menu does not have to go in the template file. If you added the code to functions.php, it would work just as well.

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