Lately I faced and issue while working with Personal Sites. My requirement
was to deploy a page in personal sites everytime a personal site gets created.
So, the quick solution that came to my mind was to deploy it using feature
stapling, and everytime the personal site gets provisioned for somebody, the
feature will get activated and my page will get deployed to the SitePages
library in the personal site that gets created. To my utter surprise, there was
no SitePages library in my personal site though it was present in the MySite
host. Then I found out that "Wiki Page Home Page" feature , which
activates by default for Team Sites ,do not get activated by default for certain
site templates, including the personal sites. Therefore , personal sites do not
contain SitePages library by default. In-case we want to create SitePages
library in personal sites then in our feature activation we need to write the
following line of code that ensures creation of the SitePages library.
SPList list = web.Lists.EnsureSitePagesLibrary();
And thats it. This will create SitePages library for a non team site. :)
Cheers,
Geetanjali