• +1 to both suggestions
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+1 to both suggestions.

did one notice, this ticket was opened in 2005 ...

Seems to be a trend on the forums and here of people wanting to do two things: 
a. Specify the behavior of the "Create" button globally and a space-by-space basis

b. Option to disable the "Blank" template globally and a space-by-space basis. 

I just added a new ticket for that topic, it's stupid, however maybe it gets more attention then.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-53447

 I am able to add my custom template to the create dialog. However, this doesn't fulfill my requirement. 

What I really want is all content within a specific space to ONLY be created with my custom template. So that when the create button is clicked while in this space, it uses my template, not a blank page. 

I believe this is what most people are asking for. There is no way (i can find) to remove the blank page template from the create dialog box or default new page creation in the space to my custom template. I hope someone can prove me wrong.

v.5.10.8 - blank page template still shows and is default for pressing create button. all other templates are suppressed.

I did make the following JS hack to add a custom global template to the "Create" button. All you need to do is to figure out your template id an replace it in the code down below. And of course past this code within a script tag into the "at end of HEAD" of the Custom HTML configuration.

AJS.toInit(function () {
    var href = AJS.$('#quick-create-page-button').attr('href');
    var href = href.replace('createpage.action?', 'createpage-entervariables.action?templateId=14483457&');
    AJS.$('#quick-create-page-button').attr('href', href);
});

You can figure out your template id by hovering (or inspecting the link) over the specific global template

I'd also very much like to have this feature implemented. I don't need users creating documents from a blank page when specific templates are available to reduce time spent on formatting and determining which data to put in. @Hans-Peter Geier, do you have any documentation from Confluence Support on editing that jar with specifics to at least bring up the template page when clicking the "Create" button?

Hi @stefantinger, the space admin (maybe with the help of the system administrator) can configure which templates you see when creating a page. If all pages in a space are to be created with one and only template, all other templates can be disabled or demoted, so they won't be available to the users anymore, and the one enabled will be the default then.

The system administrator may still want to customize the Create button (in 5.9 or greater) to get the earlier behavior back. (which will always bring up the template dialog)

We always creating our pages from one specific template (contains the permalink url and a viewtracker).
Would be much easier, if this template could be set as default and i don't have to open the template dialog each time...

I need this feature too.
IMHO, this is a very basic and important feature. I cannot imagine, that this is any hard to implement. Please don't let this ticket desert.