Forum Discussion
How can I use a "modern" web part on a "classic" page?
I need to use the Events web part, and possibly the News web part on my site's home page, which is apparently a classic page. This is a newly provisioned SharePoint site, and if I create a new page, I have access to all of the new web parts. But for some reason the home page is apparently not a "modern" page.
9 Replies
- takolotaCopper Contributor
Here's an article that may help...
Workaround for Configuring a Modern Calendar into a Classic Page on SharePointhttps://www.concurrency.com/blog/july-2019/workaround-for-configuring-a-modern-calendar-into-a-classic-page-on-sharepoint
- Colm CounihanIron Contributor
Opening an old thread here.. but have a customer who's root site is Classic and trying to see how we can make this like a Modern site using Modern pages/web parts and the new experience for lists and libraries.
Am I right in saying that the News Web Part won't work on a Modern page within a Classic site.
i've added the news web part and have add some news posts , however they are not appearing in the news web part (even when I have created the News posts directly from the web part) ?
News works fine in classic site. But you have to create the news off a Modern page using the News web part.
- Colm CounihanIron ContributorIt wasn't working on the site I tried initially.. this was on the classic root site of a older tenant.
I added a number of news articles and links but the News Web part still showed the "add news" command button.
I tried the same steps on the classic root site on a brand new tenant and the news web part is working as expected
- What you can do is just make a modern page the home page of your site: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/How-to-set-a-Modern-Page-as-homepage-for-a-Classic-Site/td-p/30621
- Anonymous
I knew I could do that, but I'd already done significant formatting and design on the current home page, it just seems ridiculous that this page works differently.
- Well, I would not say it seems ridiculous, basically you have classic pages and modern pages....if you want to use modern pages, you have to re-do all the stuff...if you wan't to re-do all the stuff, just keep your current home page as it is