Be available for all site templates under sharepoint publishing site collection.

I’ve been asked this question twice this week so I thought I would document it…

You’ve created a new site collection in SharePoint 2010 and chose the Publishing Site template. When you go to Site Actions -> New Site you only see ‘Publishing Site with Workflow’ and ‘Enterprise Wiki’ as available options. What if you want to create a team site as a subsite?

•  Go to Site Actions -> Site Settings
•  Select ‘Page layouts and site templates’ under Look and Feel
•  Decide whether to make all site templates available (‘Subsites can use any site template’) or choose templates from the ‘Subsites can only use the following site templates’ list
•  Click OK

Now when you try to create a new subsite you have access to the site templates you need. Happy SharePointing!