Turning on New Modern Pages
Some of you have mentioned to me that in your SharePoint site in Office 365, you don’t have the new, modern pages. They don’t exist when you create new pages, and they don’t exist as a content type in your Site Pages library. I’ve noticed that this is the case in my tenants. One of these such site collections was created about 5 years ago, and another one is a publishing site. I do have first release settings, and I do have the default for my tenant set to all new (modern) lists and libraries. I’m not sure specifically what types or ages of sites are going to have the modern pages by default, it just seems like really old ones are the ones that don’t. It’s just a feature to turn on.
- Go to Site Settings, and click Site Features.
- Activate the site feature called Site Pages.
- Done. Now you can create pages. Click the Settings Gear at the top right, and choose Add a Page. (You could also create the page directly in the site pages library)
- Give the page a name (your cursor will already be in the name box), put your content on it and click Publish at the top right. You could also just save your changes without publishing as you work on the draft.
- Once you’ve created this page and published it, you can choose to make it the homepage. Go to the Site Pages library, and select the row of your new page, using the little checkbox on the left. Click the ellipsis in the toolbar at the top, and choose Make Homepage.
5/2/2010 added: One other thing you can look into if this is still not working: Check your site features, and make sure that the feature called “wiki page home page” is activated. Activate the feature, then you’ll have your site pages library, and can go through these steps.
Check out my other, related post: New Modern Web Parts – Full List
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Hmm. I don’t have the Site Pages feature to turn on. Maybe my organization blocked this?
Nice one, Laura! But currently that only works for Team Sites (created with team site template STS#0). Other site types, like Project sites, will get stuck with a blank page when creating a new site page. Microsoft is investigating this, should be resolved soon.
It reassures me, I had the same problem 🙂
I have the same problem…blank page! I’m looking forward to Microsoft resolving this issue.
I’m stuck, I have turned on Site Pages but whenever I create a new page it is a Classic rather than a Modern page. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Have the same problem
Yeah, this doesn’t work. More muddled, confused thinking from Msft.
One other thing you can look into if this is still not working: Check your site features, and make sure that the feature called “wiki page home page” is activated. Activate the feature, then you’ll have your site pages library, and can go through these steps.
When I create a new page or app it only shows up in the “Activity” page (which I turned on). It will not show up as a standalone page on the Home screen. I have Site Pages and Wiki Home Page activated. I have published the pages and made sure they were not checked out to me. Thoughts? Thank you!
Make sure the “Name” column is visible. I just had the “Title” column visible and could not make any page the HomePage until I made the Name column visible. Then it would show me that option when I right clicked my new page. Was very frustrating!
Yeah I have the two features turned on (Wiki page home page and Site Pages) but still can only create a classic page.