1.) Open up your site
2.) Go to “Site Actions” –> “Site Settings”
3.) Under the “SITE COLLECTION ADMINISTRATION” section
4.) Select “Site Collection Features”
5.) Scroll down to find “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”
6.) Click the activate button
7.) Go to “Site Actions” –> “Site Settings”
8.) Under the “SITE ACTIONS” section
9.) Select “Manage Site Features”
10.) Scroll down to find “SharePoint Server Publishing”
11.) Click the activate button
You should now be able to successfully activate the Publishing feature on all sites in the site collection. There are other features that have similar dependencies and the same method will work.
