Blog site template missing from the New SharePoint Site creation page

Question

At the portal level in SP 2007 (http://portal/) , I go to create a new Blog subsite (http://portal/blog/) by using the "Create -> Sites and Workspaces". When I got to make the "Blog" template selection, the only available template is the "Publishing Site" template.

Yet, when I go to do the same in any of my site collections, all the standard templates appear (blog, news, records center, etc).

Does anyone know how to make the default templates appear?

Thanks.

Answer 1

D'oh. Finally figured out why it wasn't showing up.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/7f7641de-495f-4688-a4a9-203c780bcea8

Under Site Settings -> Look and Feel -> Page layouts and site templates you need to add the template. Not sure how come these were missing...