List of SharePoint OOTB Site Templates

Here is a list of site templates which comes with SharePoint Server. A list of templates can be obtained in SharePoint Management Shell by running these lines of script.

$globalAdmin = New-Object -TypeName "Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPGlobalAdmin"

$webTemplates = $globalAdmin.VirtualServers[0].GetWebTemplates("1033")

$webTemplates | ft Name, Title, Description -AutoSize –Wrap

These web templates can be used in SharePoint development using Object Model or writing PowerShell scripts for SharePoint administration. i.e. this script creates a new web application and creates a site collection using Team Site web template.

$AppName = "My Test Web Application"
$AppPool = "TestApplicationPool"
$UserAccount = "winsmarts\sp_admin"
$Port = 3333
$DBServer = "SHAREPOINT2010\SQL_SERVER"
$DBName = "MyTestApplicationDataBase"

New-SPWebApplication -Name $AppName -Port $Port  -ApplicationPool $AppPool -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount $UserAccount) -databaseserver $DBServer -databasename $DBName

# Set variables 
$SiteCollectionName = "Test Portal"
$SiteCollectionURL = http://sharepoint2010:3333

$SiteCollectionTemplate = "STS#0"
$SiteCollectionLanguage = 1033 
$SiteCollectionOwner = "winsmarts\sp_admin"

# Create a new Sharepoint Site Collection 
New-SPSite -URL $SiteCollectionURL -OwnerAlias $SiteCollectionOwner -Language $SiteCollectionLanguage -Template $SiteCollectionTemplate -Name $SiteCollectionName

Title	Name	Description
Global template	GLOBAL#0	This template is used for in initializing a new site.
Team Site	STS#0	A site for teams to quickly organize, author, and share information. It provides a document library, and lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, and discussions
Blank Site	STS#1	A blank site for you to customize based on your requirements.
Document Workspace	STS#2	A site for colleagues to work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a tasks list for assigning to-do items, and a links list for resources related to the document.
Basic Meeting Workspace	MPS#0	A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents.
Blank Meeting Workspace	MPS#1	A blank meeting site for you to customize based on your requirements.
Decision Meeting Workspace	MPS#2	A site for meetings that track status or make decisions. It provides lists for creating tasks, storing documents , and recording decisions.
Social Meeting Workspace	MPS#3	A site to plan social occasions. It provides lists for tracking attendees, providing directions, and storing pictures of the event.
Multipage Meeting Workspace	MPS#4	A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees in addition to two blank pages for you to customize based on your requirements.
Central Admin Site	CENTRALADMIN#0	A site for central administration. It provides Web pages and links for application and operations management.
Wiki Site	WIKI#0	A site for a community to brainstorm and share ideas. It provides Web pages that can be quickly edited to record information and then linked together through keywords.
Blog	BLOG#0	A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.
Group Work Site	SGS#0	This template provides a groupware solution that enables teams to create, organize, and share information quickly and easily. It includes Group Calendar, Circulation, Phone-Call Memo, the Document Library and the other basic lists.
Tenant Admin Site	TENANTADMIN#0	A site for tenant administration. It provides Web pages and links for self-serve administration.
Access Services Site	ACCSRV#0	Microsoft Access Server.
Assets Web Database	ACCSRV#1	Create an assets database to keep track of assets, including asset details and owners.
Charitable Contributions Web Database	ACCSRV#3	Create a database to track information about fundraising campaigns including donations made by contributors, campaign related events, and pending tasks.
Contacts Web Database	ACCSRV#4	Create a contacts database to manage information about people that your team works with, such as customers and partners.
Issues Web Database	ACCSRV#6	Create an issues database to manage a set of issues or problems. You can assign, prioritize, and follow the progress of issues from start to finish.
Projects Web Database	ACCSRV#5	Create a project tracking database to track multiple projects, and assign tasks to different people.
Document Center	BDR#0	A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise.
(obsolete) Records Center	OFFILE#0	(obsolete) 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.
Records Center	OFFILE#1	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.
Shared Services Administration Site	OSRV#0	This template creates a site for administering shared services.
PerformancePoint	PPSMASite#0	A site for presenting PerformancePoint dashboards and scorecards. The site also includes links to PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer and storage for dashboard content such as analytic charts, reports, KPIs, and strategy maps.
Business Intelligence Center	BICenterSite#0	A site for presenting Business Intelligence Center.
SharePoint Portal Server Site	SPS#0	This template is obsolete.
SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space	SPSPERS#0	This web template defines a Personal Space for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal.
Personalization Site	SPSMSITE#0	A site for delivering personalized views, data, and navigation from this site collection into My Site. It includes personalization specific Web Parts and navigation that is optimized for My Site sites.
Contents area Template	SPSTOC#0	This template is obsolete.
Topic area template	SPSTOPIC#0	This template is obsolete.
News Site	SPSNEWS#0	This template is obsolete.
Publishing Site	CMSPUBLISHING#0	A blank site for expanding your Web site and quickly publishing Web pages. Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and publish them to make them visible to readers. The site includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets.
Publishing Site	BLANKINTERNET#0	This template creates a site for publishing Web pages on a schedule, with workflow features enabled. By default, only Publishing subsites can be created under this site. A Document and Picture Library are included for storing Web publishing assets.
Press Releases Site	BLANKINTERNET#1	This template creates the Press Releases subsite for an Internet-facing corporate presence website.
Publishing Site with Workflow	BLANKINTERNET#2	A site for publishing Web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. By default, only sites with this template can be created under this site.
News Site	SPSNHOME#0	A site for publishing news articles and links to news articles. It includes a sample news page and an archive for storing older news items.
Site Directory	SPSSITES#0	A site for listing and categorizing important sites in your organization. It includes different views for categorized sites, top sites, and a site map.
Community area template	SPSCOMMU#0	This template is obsolete.
Report Center	SPSREPORTCENTER#0	A site for creating, managing, and delivering Web pages, dashboards, and key performance indicators that communicate metrics, goals, and business intelligence information.
Collaboration Portal	SPSPORTAL#0	A starter site hierarchy for an intranet divisional portal. It includes a home page, a News site, a Site Directory, a Document Center, and a Search Center with Tabs. Typically, this site has nearly as many contributors as readers and is used to host team sites.
Enterprise Search Center	SRCHCEN#0	A site for delivering the search experience. The welcome page includes a search box with two tabs: one for general searches, and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types.
Profiles	PROFILES#0	This template creates a profile site that includes page layout with zones.
Publishing Portal	BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0	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 sub site, 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.
My Site Host	SPSMSITEHOST#0	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.
Enterprise Wiki	ENTERWIKI#0	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.
Basic Search Center	SRCHCENTERLITE#0	A site for delivering the search experience. The site includes pages for search results and advanced searches.
Basic Search Center	SRCHCENTERLITE#1	The Search Center template creates pages dedicated to search. The main welcome page features a simple search box in the center of the page. The template includes a search results and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in navigation.
FAST Search Center	SRCHCENTERFAST#0	A site for delivering the FAST search experience. The welcome page includes a search box with two tabs: one for general searches, and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types.
Visio Process Repository	VISPRUS#0	A site for teams to quickly view, share, and store Visio process diagrams. It provides a versioned document library for storing process diagrams, and lists for managing announcements, tasks, and review discussions.