Save site as a template publishing site SharePoint 2013
We all know that SharePoint doesn’t support saving publishing sites as a template . I don’t recommend doing that anyway as the produced template will have errors and isn’t reliable to be used in production to create new sites off of. However, sometimes as a developer you need to save a publishing site as a template to see how SharePoint packages things. This can help you build your own custom web template which is a neat thing and replaces the need to save a publishing site as template. Well, since the Save site as a template option is hidden from the publishing sites settings page we all used the following URL to go there directly: /_layouts/savetmpl.aspx Or /_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx Well, that is not going to work anymore in SharePoint 2013 if your site is a publishing site or have the publishing features activated . You basically get that following error: The “Save site as template” action is not supported on this site. In order to get around this i