[Peter Ostry]

Originally Posted by chiptz

Sure, to have the sidebar always on on forum home page find in FORUMHOME and remove:

<a id="sidebar_button_link" href="#">
	<vb:if condition="$show['sidebarposition'] == 'left'">
	<img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed-left.png" alt="" />
	<vb:else />
	<img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed.png" alt="" />
	</vb:if>
</a>

Thanks, this was it.
"FORUMHOME" was the key word.

I did not realize the relationship between the vBulletin sidebar and the Everywhere Sidebar mod. I removed the code you mention in the sidebarext_temp and that did nothing. Now I can have the start page with an always open sidebar and the subpages optional with a collapsable or a fixed sidebar. For this forum I choose the latter. Thanks again, problem solved.

Originally Posted by chiptz

BTW, one of the good reasons to remove the possibility to collapse the sidebar is if you have advertisments on the collapsible bar.

Yes. An option to make the sidebar collapsible or not would be a nice feature for the Everywhere Sidebar mod.