New Site Templates in SharePoint 2013

Introduction

SharePoint 2013 offers a vast variety of out-of-the-box site templates. One of the success factors of your SharePoint deployment is choosing the most suitable site template that meets your business needs.

Apart from all the site templates included with SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Server 2013 has some new site templates.  A number of site templates are available in SharePoint 2013. Site templates are grouped into categories such as Collaboration, Enterprise, and Publishing.

Apart from all the site templates included with SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Server 2013 has some new site templates.

Title Description
App Template A base template for app development. It provides 
the minimal set of features needed for an app.
App Catalog Site A site for sharing apps for SharePoint and Office 
Developer Site A site for developers to build, test and publish 
apps for Office.
Academic Library The Academic Library template provides a rich 
view and consumption experience for published 
content and management. Authors populate 
metadata and apply rules at the time of 
publishing, such as description, licensing, 
and optional rights management.
(IRM). Visitors of the site can search or browse 
published titles and add authorized selections 
to their collection to consume, subject to the 
rights and rules applied by the author. 
The site provides an IRM-capable document 
library, a publishing mechanism for authors 
to publish documents, detailed views for 
each document, a check-out mechanism, 
and related search capabilities.
eDiscovery Center A site to manage the preservation, search, 
and export of content for legal matters 
and investigations. 
eDiscovery Case This template creates an eDiscovery case. 
Users create locations where they can 
preserve or export data.
Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space This web template defines a minimal 
Personal Space with both Social and 
Storage features for an individual 
participating on a SharePoint Portal.
Storage Only SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space This web template defines a minimal 
Personal Space with Storage features for 
an individual participating on a 
SharePoint Portal.
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.
Product Catalog A site for managing product catalog data 
which can be published to  an internet-facing 
site through search. The product catalog 
can be configured.
to support product variants and multilingual 
product properties. The site includes admin 
pages for managing faceted navigation for 
products.
Community Site A 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.
Community Portal A site for discovering communities.