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Niki Felker's avatar
Niki Felker
Copper Contributor
Jul 16, 2019
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How do I restore a Modern homepage that was deleted?

Somehow I managed to delete the homepage to my modern communication site. Problem is, I can't find it in the Recycle bin!  Any ideas/suggestions on how I can recover that deleted homepage or how I ca...
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  • frostydog1927's avatar
    frostydog1927
    Apr 30, 2020

    Niki Felker I know your question was from 6 months ago, but I just had a similar problem, except that in my case a user had deleted the home page almost a year ago. I found that you can create a new blank modern page by appending "/_layouts/CreateSitePage.aspx" to the end of your site URL. e.g. https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite/_layouts/CreateSitePage.aspx

    That will let you create a blank modern page.

    If you want to create a page with the default modern home page layout, you can use the Pnp (Patterns and Practices) powershell module for Sharepoint with the following couple of lines:

     

    Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite"

    Add-PnPClientSidePage -Name Home -LayoutType Home

     

    (of course you'll need to have the PnP SharePoint module installed for that to work)

     

    That will create a modern page named Home, with the Home layout, in the site pages library.

Rob Ellis's avatar
Rob Ellis
Bronze Contributor
Jul 16, 2019
did the migration tool remove the homepage, or just overwrite it? if the latter, then you should be able to simply go back to a previous version of the page.
Niki Felker's avatar
Niki Felker
Copper Contributor
Jul 16, 2019

Rob EllisThe migration tool options were set to copy and replace, however the migration failed but it appears to have removed the Home.aspx page or replaced it with nothing :-/

  • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
    ChrisWebbTech
    MVP
    Jul 19, 2019
    If you can do the library settings of the pages library see if you have the “restore this library” option. You might be able to get it from that, but be careful on the changes.