Common site templates in SharePoint 2013, 2016 and SharePoint Online

Common site templates in SharePoint 2013, 2016 and SharePoint Online

A site template is what you use when you create a new SharePoint site. Site template use to provide us to start the site setup and page for SharePoint.

The site templates we should be use to with below:

Collaboration

• Team Site: A template designed for teams to collaborate, share documents, and stay in sync.

• Blog: A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.
• Developer site: A site for developers to build, test and publish apps for Office
• Project Site: A site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all status, communication, and artifacts relevant to the project into one place.
• Community Site: A template designed place where community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have a best reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies. And to create a site that allows community members to congregate and discuss common interests.

Enterprise

• Document Center: A template designed site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise and for managing common documents in a central location
• Records Center: This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository.
• Business Intelligence Center: A site for presenting Business Intelligence content in SharePoint.
• Enterprise Search Center: A site focused on delivering an enterprise-wide search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to four search results page experiences: one for general searches, one for people searches, one for conversation searches, and one for video searches. You can add and customise new results pages to focus on other types of search queries.
• Basic Search Center: A site focused on delivering a basic search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to a search results page, and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in navigation
• My Site Host: A site used for hosting personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. This template needs to be provisioned only once per User Profile Service Application, please consult the documentation for details.
• Visio Process Repository: A site for viewing, sharing, and storing Visio process diagrams. It includes a versioned document library and templates for Basic Flowcharts, Cross-functional Flowcharts, and BPMN diagrams.

Publishing Category

• Publishing Portal: A starter site hierarchy for an Internet-facing site or a large intranet portal. This site can be customized easily with distinctive branding. It includes a home page, a sample press releases subsite, a Search Center, and a login page. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors, and it is used to publish Web pages with approval workflows.
• Enterprise Wiki: A site for publishing knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. It provides an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, discussions, and project management.