Your master page automatically on newly created (sub)sites ( Via Jeffrey Paarhuis)

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In my previous post on how to design and deploy a custom SharePoint master page I explained how to create an own branded master page and how to deploy that master page to your SharePoint site. Now I first stumbled upon the problem that the master page doesn’t get automatically applied to newly created (sub)sites, and secondly I received a comment from a reader describing the exact same problem. So I decided to write my findings and solution to the open world. Here it is.

The problem is very simple: You create your own master page, you apply your master page to all sites and it does that, nice, but when you create a new site you just get the old v4.master on that site and not your custom master page. Everyone with this problem, if you followed my previous post or not, can follow this solution. It doesn’t even matter what SharePoint version you’re using.

When I Googled for a bit, I found out that there is no out-of-the-box-solution for this and a lot of guys use Visual Studio to solve this. You could program an event receiver that sets your master page to every new site. Or you could program a Feature that holds your master page and apply that feature to a site definition. But I find that a bit heavy and not very flexible solution. So I played around a bit and found a solution myself without the use of Visual Studio or programming at all.

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