Thursday, March 6, 2014

Finding SiteTemplate type in SharePoint 2010 & 2013

Many a times, we may not have access to the SharePoint environment. But we may want to know the SharePoint Site Template type without logging into the Servers and without using Site Settings/Administration.

Here are the steps:

1) View the Page source(In IE, Right Click on the page and click View Source. In Chrome, Click Ctrl + I).
Search for the Keyword g_wsaSiteTemplateId


If you see something like var g_wsaSiteTemplateId = 'STS#0';, then the site was created using Team Site. You can map the value of g_wsaSiteTemplateId  to a specific Site Template.
For example 'STS#0' is the code for Team Site


2) If you want to know all templates open PowerShell and run 
Get-SPWebTemplate | format-table -auto | Out-File -FilePath  "C:\temp\Output.txt" 
You will get a list of all templates
If you don't have a local SharePoint environment, you can find them from Bernd Kemmler's Blog

3) Some of the most commonly used  are
  • STS#0        Team Site
  • STS#1        Blank Site
  • WIKI#0      Wiki Site
  • BLOG#0     Blog Site
  • CMSPUBLISHING#0  Publishing Site               
  • BLANKINTERNET#0  Publishing Site                                                     

Thats it.

Good Luck.

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