Sharepoint 2010 - Assign Category to your Site Template (without VS)
Set your Site Template in a Category is (maybe) simple with Visual Studio, but not the faster way. I tried with success by editing some xml in WSP package. Here step by step my solution. Save your site as template, "My_Site". Go in Solutions Gallery and download your My_Site.wsp package on desktop. Rename extension from .wsp to .cab. Use your tool to extract and create CAB archive, I used SimplyZip . Extract My_Site.cab and open to edit file Elements.xml in folder “ My_SiteWebTemplate ”. Add attribute DisplayCategory="My Site Templates" in tag “< WebTemplate> ” and save file. Use your tool to create new file My_Site.cab with all files from original cab and modified file. Note : with SimplyZip use Drag&Drop to set files and folders to add in cab. Change extension from .cab to .wsp and upload My_Site.wsp on Solutions Gallery. Now, try to create new Site: in the " Filter By:" section, you see My Site Templates category...