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Apr 10, 2018

Change News Page to Site Page

Hi All, I'm looking for a method of changing a News Page to a Site Page. These pages were created prior to the hub sites being rolled out, now they are showing up in the News sections of all pag...

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Apr 10, 2018
Ok, I finally got this to work without Using flow. Do the following.

1.Go to Site Pages on your Site.
2.Change your view to "All Items"
3.Now Click the + to add a column to view, and select Show/Hide Columns
4.Check Promoted State column and click "Apply" at the top.
5.Now Click the view drop down and Save view as
6.Name it "All Items and State"
7.Now you should be able to click "Quick Edit" and then Promoted State column will be exposed to change the value. Change the page you no longer want to be news from 2 to 0 and Click exit and your page can now be a Site page again.

carlosxjunior

Copper Contributor

I dont't get this Quick Edit option, only "Edit in grid view" and then it says the cell for Promoted State is read only, so I can't change it. Any ideas on what I should do?

RobElliott

Silver Contributor

May 04, 2022

carlosxjunior you can see my post on how to change the promoted state at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/sharepoint-news-post-still-appears-even-after-the-news-page-has/m-p/3291560/highlight/true#M59373

Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

brewsa
Brass Contributor
Sep 13, 2022
If this worked in April 2022, I'm afraid Microsoft have closed that loophole now too. They really don't want us messing with this field - which remains read-only. But still we appear to have no "Demote" option available as standard... so still we scratch our heads over what to do about mistakenly promoted pages... I'm afraid my Admin blocks the use of SPFx extensions like the one mentioned above - but hopefully that option is still available (and still works) for some of you.
- ganeshsanap
  MVP
  Sep 14, 2022
  brewsa carlosxjunior You can also use SharePoint JSON formatting to demote news pages in SharePoint.
  
  Check the column formatting sample for same: Demote News to Site Page
  Please consider giving a Like if my post helped you in any way.
  - brewsa
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 14, 2022
    Many thanks for the tip - I will give it a try. Where would we be without @thechriskent!