There is no option in the game to 'always display extended hold hotbar'

[Darkstride]

I tried this yesterday, the normal styled hotbars whose grid layout can be changed, could not fit all of the actions onto it, I believe it was 4 spaces short. And would manually need to have every action for all jobs moved onto it in an order that close resembles the extended hold hotbar - as they are displayed in random order, and for some reason it had one or two actions on it from another set which was not selected.

I would have in the mean time used the WXHB (always displayed) with duplicate extended hold bar actions just so I can see their timers, but I have to use the WXHB for uncommon actions that won't fit on the other bars.

I use a standard hotbar under my cross hotbar for skills where I want to track the cooldown. Just make sure it isn't a "shared" hotbar, and then you can see it for each job. I only slot skills where I need to see the cooldown.

If you want it to better mimic the layout of the extended crossbar, you could also use multiple regular hotbars and change the shape to something like a 3 x 4 to set the ability icons how you want.