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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.
M365061290 Anyone know why when we "Unpublish" a news article, nothing happens? The article is still posted on the front page and visible to all, and "Publish" option is then available for that page because its been unpublished. If its still visible whether its published or unpublished, what does publishing actually mean?
Thanks
Deleted Give the search indexer time to run and make sure you are checking with an account that is not an editor of the site. When I unpublish, it takes a few minutes for the article to be removed. To make it easier to tell which pages are unpublished, make sure that you have Version showing up in the Pages view. Pages where the version is not .0 are either unpublished or the latest version has not been published.
Susan_Hanley Yeah I was thinking if unpublished means it unpublished the last published version. If that's the case it will roll back to an old article you would think. Then might have to resort to changing the page's "Promoted State" to 0 via Quick Edit hack.
Turismon null I'm just surprised there is no functionality built in to manage news posts? All news will eventually need to be removed, and there solution is just to delete pages. However some obviously would like to retain pages history for relevant posts in the future, but we need to rely on a third party promote 'hack' to manage this. Strangest cms I've ever used.
Deleted Page scheduling is coming. It was announced at SPC19. I know they talked about scheduling a page to post at a specific date and I'm hoping that there will also be a way to "un-pupblish" on a specific date as well, like there was in earlier versions of SharePoint on prem - but I'm not sure. If there is a feature you really want that isn't there, you should add it to user voice. Microsoft really pays attention to what people want - but not everything makes it to the roadmap at the same time!
