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Remove items from News on SharePoint Communication Site
You can change the promoted state to 0, which makes the site a "regular" site page, not a News page. To do that you first have to expose Promoted State in a view (choose a flat view to make it easier to edit). (Use the + in the library view and then select Promoted State and be sure to press Apply.) Once you ahve exposed the column, you can change the order by editing the view.
Then, in quick edit, change promoted state from 2 (news) to 0 (site page). I think the challenge with this approach is that the page still exists and it can still be found in search and you now have it mixed in with "regular" site pages. You could also add a column to Site Pages and "tag" the page as Archive or something like that - but unless you un-publish, it will still be visible in search.
You can change the promoted state to 0, which makes the site a "regular" site page, not a News page. To do that you first have to expose Promoted State in a view (choose a flat view to make it easier to edit). (Use the + in the library view and then select Promoted State and be sure to press Apply.) Once you ahve exposed the column, you can change the order by editing the view.
Then, in quick edit, change promoted state from 2 (news) to 0 (site page). I think the challenge with this approach is that the page still exists and it can still be found in search and you now have it mixed in with "regular" site pages. You could also add a column to Site Pages and "tag" the page as Archive or something like that - but unless you un-publish, it will still be visible in search.
As noted above, changing the promoted state or unpublishing a published news post won't remove it from a news feed. You'd expect unpublishing would be the reverse of publishing and reset the post to a draft version, but it doesn't. It creates a minor version but users can still see the prior published version. You have to either copy the post and delete the original, or use powershell to remove/reset the FirstPublishedDate field.
- To view the promoted state of a page, go to the site pages library. Select the link to add a new column at the far right of the view. Then scroll down to the Show/Hide columns selection. Click the checkbox in front of Promoted State and click Apply. You will now see Promoted State in the view of the Site Pages library. I recommend making the All Pages view the default view and adding Promoted State to that view. You need to add the field to each view separately. If you add it to the all pages view, you can group by Promoted State to show all News articles together. You could also create a view that only shows only News by filtering for Promoted State = 2.
