I was just getting ready to create a public facing site for our customers. Readings told me that the Publishing Template was best for public sites… ok, sounds reasonable. I use a SharePoint 2013 Management Shell script to provision site collections and needed the name of the Publishing template….. So I ran Get-SPWebTemplate. The first thing I noticed was that there are 61 templates!! I had no idea there were so many !
Ok so I scrolled down and located Publishing.
CMSPUBLISHING#0 Publishing Site BLANKINTERNET#0 Publishing Site BLANKINTERNET#1 Press Release Site BLANKINTERNET#2 Publishing Site with Workflow
Which one should I use?
Here’s the breakdown:
Template ID = 39 Desc: A blank site for expanding your Web site and quickly publishing Web pages. Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and publish them to make them visible to readers. The site includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. Title: Publishing Site Name: CMSPUBLISHING#0
Template ID = 53 Desc: This template creates a site for publishing Web pages on a schedule, with workflow features enabled. By default, only Publishing subsites can be created under this site. A Document and Picture Library are included for storing Web publishing assets. Title: Publishing Site Name: BLANKINTERNET#0
Template ID = 53 Desc: This template creates the Press Releases subsite for an Internet-facing corporate presence website. Title: Press Releases Site Name: BLANKINTERNET#1
Template ID = 53 Desc: A site for publishing Web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. By default, only sites with this template can be created under this site. Title: Publishing Site with Workflow Name: BLANKINTERNET#2
So, if your curious, run the commandlet Get-SPWebTemplate or take a look here.
