'Save site as template' link not visible

In the sites where 'Publishing' feature is activated, the link 'Save site as template' may not be available in the Site Settings page. It is due to the following reason.

The ‘PublishingSiteSettings.xml’ file which belongs to ‘Publishing’ feature may have the following element which hides the ‘Save site as template’ link in the ‘Site Settings’ page of the sites in which ‘Publishing’ feature is activated.


The same might have been added to avoid the issue mentioned in the following KB article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925189/en-us

Though the ‘Save site as template’ link is not visible, we can save the site as template by directly typing in the URL as follows.

http://server/sites/mysite/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx

The issue described on the KB article above does not seem to occur now, provided the latest Service Packs and HotFixes are deployed in the server.