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I know how to in the settings activate publishing feature on a site but is it possible to have this by default when a new site is created from the UI?

I have some customized stylesheets and when a new team site is created it doesn't load these but instead looks like a sharepoint site out of the box. When I go to settings and activate publishing features the page reloads with the custom stylesheets. I wish to not have to do this every time a new site is created. Is there a solution to this?

Thanks in advance.

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I guess you could either:

  1. Build a site template (can't remember if these store feature activations)

  2. Build a custom site definition, and activate the features you need

  3. Build a stapling feature to tie your feature to the site definition

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Preferably the user would be able to click New Site and select whichever template/definition they want and the site has publishing activated. I don't want to build a custom site template for every possible site type in SP 2010.
do you really want to activate the publishing feature on all site definitions? team sites, search center, mysite, etc...
This isn't really a solution. Questioning the motive behind needing to get something done isn't helpful. What would be useful is information on how to create a stapling feature. This particular issue is bothersome, and a good example of how SP2010 has taken a step backward from SP2007 in terms of usability. There should at least be an option to inherit feature configuration from the parent. I shouldn't need to build a custom feature simply so I can use an alternate css and not have to activate the publishing feature on every single sub site.

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