Custom site template for publishing portal site collection

Question

I have created a custom site template with team site. When I deployed to a team or other than publishing portal site collection it shows the custom site template in defined category. But when I deployed to publishing portal site collection the defined category is not there.. Is there any specific reason? Or I'm doing mistake??

Answer 1

publishing sites in SharePoint has much more than just the publishing feature. It includes special webparts to the masterpage and a unique hierarchy of form pages. So, Custom Team Site template will not work with publishing site.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/43b97467-ae4c-4ec2-8b03-2c1d12bccbef/creating-a-custom-team-site-template-for-publishing-site-collection?forum=sharepointdevelopment

Custom Publishing Site definition is unavailable to create sub sites under publishing portal site collection