Create a Modern Page in SharePoint Online using PowerShell

Requirement: Create Modern Page in SharePoint Online using PowerShell

How to Create a Modern Page in SharePoint Online?

Modern site pages are fast, Responsive, easy to author, and support rich multimedia content. To create a modern site page, follow the below steps:

• Logon to your SharePoint Online site >> Click on “Settings” gear >> Click on “Site contents” from the menu.
• Now, open the “Site Pages” library on the site contents page >> Click on “New” >> Site Page. You can also use the New >> Page from the toolbar in the home page.

  

• Select the template and click on the “Create page” button at the bottom of the screen. This opens a new page in edit mode,  provide the name, set the content of the page, click Save and publish to create the page.

SharePoint Online: Create Modern Page using PowerShell

This PowerShell script creates a modern page in a given communication site and adds the News web part and document library.

#Config Variable
$SiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/Intranet"
 
#Connect to PpP Online
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Interactive # -Credentials (Get-Credential)
 
#Create new page
$Page = Add-PnPPage -Name "News" -LayoutType Article

#Set Page properties
Set-PnPPage -Identity $Page -Title "News" -CommentsEnabled:$False -HeaderType Default

#Add Section to the Page
Add-PnPPageSection -Page $Page -SectionTemplate OneColumn 

#Add Text to Page
Add-PnPPageTextPart -Page $Page -Text "Welcome To News Portal" -Section 1 -Column 1

#Add News web part to the section
Add-PnPPageWebPart -Page $Page -DefaultWebPartType News -Section 1 -Column 1

#Add List to Page
Add-PnPPageWebPart -Page $Page -DefaultWebPartType List -Section 1 -Column 1 -WebPartProperties @{ selectedListId = "21b99d39-834f-4991-b5f9-bd095fa0633c"} 

#Publish the page
$Page.Publish()

This creates a news page in full width as below (which is presently not possible through UI!):