New Site Pages - Remove Promote Feature

[Philine von Guretzky]

I just noticed today that new site pages have a promote feature - which makes it a news announcement promoted on the SharePoint homepage.

Firstly how do you disable this feature?

And how do you remove the news post if something say has been posted by trigger happy people?

Thanks

[#2]

you can, if you run a powershell and change field state of promotedState to false

[#3]

Hello All,

We can use the following workaround to un-promote the page.

Step1 :

Go to Site Pages and library and Change the view to “By Promoted State” which will show the Promoted State Column on the view.

If the view is not available then create one using the steps below once you are on the All Pages view.

select + Add column. Then, from that drop down, select Show/hide columns. You will now see Promoted State Column, select it and then be sure to save the view.

Step2: Left click on the Promoted State Colum and choose Column settings and then Edit.

Step3: On the Edit Column panel, go to Default Value Field and replace 0 with blank value and click Save.

Step4: Repeat Step 2 again and Update the Default Value Field back to the Value 0.

Step5 : Select the Page that you wanted to Un-Promote and go to the properties and Select Edit Item to Change the Promoted State Value to 0 (un-promote).

Outcome : The above page will no longer appear in the News Web part.

[#4]

@Steven Collier  how did you pick up the file and moved it to a different group?  I can't seem to do it.