So I ended up with a rough solution I think. Let me know what you think.

I installed the PHP widget plugin. http://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-widget/
Created a Custom Widget Area
Pasted in the sidebar code:

<?php 
	echo "<div class='EAsidebar sidebar sidebar_".$sidebar." ".$sidebar_smartphone.">";
	 	echo "<div class='inner_sidebar extralight-border'>";
	        $av_sidebar_menu = avia_sidebar_menu(false);
	        if($av_sidebar_menu)
	        {
	            echo $av_sidebar_menu;
	            $default_sidebar = false;
	        }
    	echo "</div>";
  	echo "</div>";
?>

Then placed the Custom Widget Area in the avia layout

Here is the result with a little tweaking of CSS. http://rev.greatercea.org/?page_id=2386

Kinda rough like I said but think it got the job done. Let me know your thoughts and if you see a cleaner approach. Always like to hear about best practices.

Thanks.

Just as I had thought. Thanks for the clarification. Appreciate the quick response.

Best,

Nate

I do have an additional question that is somewhat related. I am still having a difficult time completely wrapping my head around how to modify/customize the theme to fit my needs without losing my progress when the core theme does an update. I recently just started to read how to use a child-theme and I understand how that works as it relates to CSS or even JS.

However, when I make changes to the captcha label text or copy-write language in the foot for instance, these changes are lost during theme updates. Now I get why, but how do I avoid that moving forward? Does it have to do with storing customize includes that work with the framework? Not sure how I use a child-Theme in that way, or if i can?

Hopefully I’m asking this correctly. As you can see, I’m a couple weeks in and extremely excited about getting my hands dirty. Any kind of support or direction would is greatly appreciate.

Thank.

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