Topic on Talk:Release notes/1.22

I want to have a non-collapsible sidebar by default. Why was this not thinked about? The Extension:Vector had it working perfectly and you killed that feature in the final version

I also want to disable this. Please add this feature again somehow, or at least tell us what variable needs to be changed and to what.

Found it! in the file skins/vector/vector.php

change the line $out->addModules( array( 'skins.vector.js', 'skins.vector.collapsibleNav' ) ); to $out->addModules( array( 'skins.vector.js' )); # 'skins.vector.collapsibleNav' ) );

I will try that, thanks!

See also bugzilla:55905.

just remove file

/skins/vector/collapsibleNav.js

My trouble was Collapsible Nav was hiding the customized Donate button I have in my wiki's Support portlet, and because I have chosen to hide the Support nav heading which was redundant, that left no path to the Donate button. Fixed that by adding this to MediaWiki:Vector.css:

#p-support div.body {
      display:inline !important;
}

So now Collapsible Nav doesn't hide my Donate button.

I gave a similar solution in Thread:Project:Support desk/SubSidebar does not expand (2)

I have created (and I am using it on my MediaWiki 1.23 wikis) code that can be added to LocalSettings.php to disable collapsible sidebar in MediaWiki 1.23 without modifications of MediaWiki files. The code is available at: https://github.com/DavisNT/CodeSamples/blob/master/MediaWiki%20hacks/Disable%20Collapsible%20Sidebar%20on%20MW%201.23.php P.S. This code is not tested on MediaWiki 1.22.