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MediaWiki 1.36.1 with Timeless and one sidebar menu.

I have two links in my sidebar menu: One is to the homepage and one is to the contact page.

• A link to my homepage is already available from my site's name (#p-logo-text > p-banner) so the navigation link to the homepage causes some kind of a duplication
• I think to put a sticky HTTP link to the contact page from the bottom part of the screen display which will appear in every page as an alternative to the navigation page link

Is there a way to totally disable sidebar menu?

Not just by CSS but from PHP?

I'm sure it is (likely there'll be a file in skins/timeless that you can just delete a chunk of). There are skins designed without sidebars too: https://skins.wmflabs.org/#/

Thank you, I try to work all-core because it makes my upgrades much easier.

Our MediaWiki is version 1.32, and most of the available extensions, such as PluggableSSO, PluggableAuth, SimpleSAMLPhp, and OpenIdConnect, do not support it.

"Not just by CSS but from PHP?"

I think this is the file you need to edit - https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Timeless/blob/master/includes/TimelessTemplate.php (i.e. edit the copy on your server).

Just start deleting stuff and see what happens!

Make a note so that you can do it again when you upgrade :-)