Create site page in SharePoint online

In this SharePoint Online tutorial, we will discuss what are site pages in SharePoint Online? Then we will see, how to create site page in SharePoint Online. I will also show you, how to copy an existing site page and create a new page from that in SharePoint Online.

We will also see:

• How to copy site page from one site to another site using Power Automate or Microsoft flow.
• Cannot create a site page. please have your administrator enable the required feature on this site
• Create site page option missing in SharePoint Online modern sites
• Site assets library missing SharePoint Online

What is a site page in SharePoint Online

SharePoint site page is used to display and organize the content in the pages of the SharePoint site. So each site has multiple pages and it can be located in the site page library in the SharePoint site.

SharePoint site pages are a great way to share ideas using images, excel, word and documents, and more. We can create and publish the page quickly and easily.

How to Create site page in SharePoint online

Here we will learn how to create SharePoint site page in a modern SharePoint Online site.

Follow the steps to create SharePoint modern site page:

• Open the SharePoint site where you want to create a page (Make sure you are at the home page).
• Click on the Dropdown arrow next to the + New button.
• Select Page.

• We get three options to create a site page using the SharePoint page template.
  • Blank– Start from scratch. Add column, text, images, link, video, and more.
  • Visual – Visually attractive template with a focus on images that complement your text.
  • Basic – Basic two-column template with an emphasis on text and example of text formatting.

I have used the Blank template to create a SharePoint site page.

• Click on Create.

• Add a name to the Page.

Now, you can simply Publish the page and the site page will be available to the users of the SharePoint Online site.

But, if you want to display any information, then you can add various modern SharePoint web parts.

• Click on the Plus button after each section to add web parts. For example, I have added File viewer, Document Library, News, and Event.

• After adding web parts, you can publish.

Now, the page is created, you can see the page on the SharePoint site.

The file will be available in the Site pages library in the SharePoint Online site.

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Copy Site Page and Create a New Page

Now, we will see how to copy a site page in SharePoint Online by using an existing page.

Here we will learn how to copy pages on SharePoint sites

• Open the SharePoint site
• Navigate to pages in Quick launch.
• Then select a page which page you want to make a copy.

• Click on the Copy to icon to copy the pages in same site and same library.

• Click On Copy here. After that you can see the replicate of that page.

Copy SharePoint site page using Microsoft flow or Power Automate

In modern SharePoint sites, there is no functionality to copy a SharePoint site page from one SharePoint site to another. But you can copy site pages from one SharePoint site to another using power automate. Using power automate you can copy a single page at a time.

To create a flow follow the steps

• Open power automate (flow.microsoft.com)
• Click on Create.
• Select Instant cloud flow.

• Give a flow name, under choose how to trigger this flow click on Manually trigger a flow. Click on create.

• Click on the Next step to add an action.

• Select copy file for SharePoint.

• Give Current site address, file to copy(which file you have given that one will copy), destination site address, destination folder, and select copy with new name if another file is already in destination sites.

• Click on Save.
• Then click on the Test icon and select manually and hit the Test button.

• Sign in to run the flow. Once you get sign in click on the Continue
• Click on the Run Flow

• Click on the hyper text Flow run page to see whether your flow is successful or not.

Now, you can check destination site pages whether it is copied from source site.

This is how to copy site pages from one site to another site using Microsoft flow or Power Automate.

Copy a SharePoint site page using site pages library

So here is what you got to do to copy or duplicate a page:

• Select Site Contents in the command bar -> Site Pages navigate to the Site Pages document library.

• Click the checkbox next to the page you want to copy. You can also right-click the ellipsis icon and choose Copy to

• On the side panel, click Copy here. Do not change the destination location.

• The page will now be copied and named with suffix “1” at the end.

• You can now rename the SharePoint site page, for that select the ellipsis icon and choose Rename option. You can also select the rename option from the command bar.

Replicate SharePoint site pages using a copy of this page option

• Create a new page on the site first and publish it as shown below.

• Next, click on the New -> Copy of this page from the drop down menu.

• And the new page will be created as the previous page. Just give it a name, and Select Publish.

These are the two ways that we can follow to copy the SharePoint site page.

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SharePoint site pages Permission

Let us discuss SharePoint site pages permission. Site Pages is the library for a Team site. Go to the SharePoint site. In the Settings Gear Icon. Select Site contents -> Site pages.

• Click on the site page in sharepoint for which you want to set site page permissions.Click on the ellipses and Select Manage access.

• Either you can direct give access to the site page or you can also share link to access the site page.

• Select + icon and add the users to whom you want to share the site page . Once the users added Select the Notify people check box and click on the Grant access.

• You will get a sucess message like Access Granted and Notified.

This is how we can grant access to the site pages library in Sharepoint.

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Check SharePoint site page permission with Shared User

Whenever you are sharing a SharePoint site page with another user, you need to check whether the shared user is getting access or not. To check the SharePoint site page permission with the shared users, you need to follow the below things.

• The Shared User should log in to their Outlook account using their credentials.
• The Shared User will get a notification message as shown below:

Here, Roselin is the user who shared a SharePoint site Page with another user or end-user.

• Click on the Open button, it redirects to the Shared SharePoint site page.They end user can access the SharePoint Site page which is Shared with them.

This is how we can check SharePoint site page permission with the Shared User in Sharepoint.

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SharePoint site pages Folder

Let us see how to add a new folder to the SharePoint site pages.

Initially Go to the SharePoint site page by selecting Settings Gear Icon ->Site contents -> Site pages.

By default, there will be no option to add a new folder in SharePoint site pages. When you expand the New Option you can only see the Wiki page, Web Part page, and site page options as shown below:

To add a folder option in the SharePoint site pages follow the below steps

• Go to the SharePoint site page by selecting Settings Gear Icon ->Site contents -> Site pages.
• Select Setting Gear Icon and Click on the Library settings.

• Now Select Advanced settings.

• In Folders, by default “New Folder” option value is No, change it to Yes.

• At the bottom, Click Ok.

Once you clicked the Ok button, Refresh the SharePoint site page. You can able to see the Folder option on the SharePoint site page as shown below.

Where you can add a new folder to the SharePoint site pages.

This is how we can add a new folder to the SharePoint site pages in SharePoint.

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SharePoint site pages Permission

Let us discuss SharePoint site pages permission. To provide access to a SharePoint site pages library, follow the below steps:

Go to the SharePoint site. In the Settings Gear Icon. Select Site contents -> Site pages.

• Click on the site page in SharePoint for which you want to set site page permissions. Click on the ellipses and Select Manage access.

• Either you can direct give access to the site page or you can also share link to access the site page.

• Select + icon and add the users to whom you want to share the site page . Once the users added Select the Notify people check box and click on the Grant access.

• You will get a sucess message like Access Granted and Notified.

This is how to grant access to the site pages library in SharePoint Online.

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Check SharePoint site page permission with Shared User

Whenever you are sharing a SharePoint site page with another user, you need to check whether the shared user is getting access or not. To check the SharePoint site page permission with the shared users, you need to follow the below things.

• The Shared User should log in to their Outlook account using their credentials.
• The Shared User will get a notification message as shown below:

Here, Roselin is the user who shared a SharePoint site Page with another user or end-user.

• Click on the Open button, it redirects to the Shared SharePoint site page.They end user can access the SharePoint Site page which is Shared with them.

This is how we can check SharePoint site page permission with the Shared User in SharePoint.

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SharePoint site pages folder

Let us see how to add a new folder to the SharePoint site pages library.

Initially Go to the SharePoint site page by selecting Settings Gear Icon ->Site contents -> Site pages.

By default, there will be no option to add a new folder in SharePoint site pages. When you expand the New Option you can only see the Wiki page, Web Part page, and site page options as shown below:

To add a folder option in the SharePoint site pages follow the below steps

• Go to the SharePoint site page by selecting Settings Gear Icon ->Site contents -> Site pages.
• Select Setting Gear Icon and Click on the Library settings.

• Now Select Advanced settings.

• In Folders, by default “New Folder” option value is No, change it to Yes.

• At the bottom, Click Ok.

Once you clicked the Ok button, Refresh the SharePoint site page. You can able to see the Folder option on the SharePoint site page as shown below.

Where you can add a new folder to the SharePoint site pages.

This is how we can add a new folder to the SharePoint site pages in SharePoint.

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SharePoint site page vs Wiki Page

Let’s see what is the difference between the wiki page and the site Page.

SharePoint site page library contains all pages including the home page, and when you add a new page to your site, by default it’s created below the site page library.

Wiki pages are stored in the site-pages library. On the wiki page, we have plenty of options in ribbon-like insert option in ribbon, page, format text option in the ribbon, etc. We can insert a web part option in the wiki page too. we have a check-in check-out option on the wiki page too.

The wiki page is the sub-category of the main category Site Pages. wiki page library it’s an interconnected set of editable web pages, which can contain text, images, and web parts.it’s used when you have mostly a need for rich text content; for example, text, tables, links, and images.

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SharePoint site page vs Web part page

Let’s see what is the difference between the site page and the Web part page in SharePoint.

SharePoint Site page

SharePoint sites are essentially containers for information. The way you store and organize things in SharePoint is by Sites.

• We can create a Site page from the option New in another site page.
• We can change the Layout.
• We can add Web Part as new or in the Exsiting.
• We can change the Name property and the Title property in the UI.
• We can create section and enter free text.

SharePoint Web Part page

SharePoint Web Parts are components of a page on the SharePoint sites.

• We can only create a Web Part page from the Site pages in Site contents
• We can choose layout at the time of creation and cannot change the Layout after that.
• We can add Web Parts.
• We can change the Name property and we cannot change the Title property in the UI.
• We cannot enter free text, we can use only web parts.

SharePoint Web Part Page is shown below:

Sharepoint site pages vs pages

SharePoint Site Pages Library is created by default with every single SharePoint team site. By default Site Page is embedded into a Team Site. 

• Page Library is created once you activate the Publishing features.
• Page is just a means to visualize content on a given site. 
•  Pages library is a document library that contains all the content pages for a publishing site.
• A site that has thousands or tens of thousands of pages stored in the Pages library must consider a unique set of issues that relate to managing these pages, and providing navigation between them in a site.
• Page you see will depends on your SharePoint version,whether you are using Modern site or Classic site in the SharePoint.

These are the difference between SharePoint sites, pages, and web parts.

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Cannot create a site page. please have your administrator enable the required feature on this site

Let us see, how to solve an error: Cannot create a site page. please have your administrator enable the required feature on this site. The error comes while trying to create a site page in SharePoint Online or in SharePoint 2013/2016.

Recently, I was trying to create a site page on SharePoint Online site. But it gave an error as Cannot create a site page. please have your administrator enable the required feature on this site.

The error looks like below:

The error was coming because the “Site Pages” feature is not activated on the SharePoint Online site.

Open SharePoint Online site, then click on the Gear icon -> Site Settings.

Then on the Site Settings page, click on “Manage site features” which is under “Site Actions“.

In the Site Features page, search for the “Site Pages” site feature and click on Activate button to activate the “Site Pages” feature like below:

This SharePoint we learned how to resolve Cannot create a site page. please have your administrator enable the required feature on this site error in SharePoint Online Office 365.

Create site page option missing in SharePoint Online modern sites

Now, let us see, how to enable create site page option in SharePoint Online modern sites. We will also see, how to enable modern UI experience in Office 365 SharePoint Online document libraries.

Recently we wanted to create a site page in Office 365 SharePoint online site to use Microsoft’s new Modern UI features.

But when we open the new team site collection, we could not see an option to create a new Site Page in the Site Pages library (where we can use the modern UI feature). We can only see Wiki Page, Web Part Page and Link like below:

Also, we can not see the Site Pages document library in Site Contents in SharePoint Online sites.

Create site page option missing in SharePoint

Here we wanted to have the Site Pages document library and also wanted to enable the New experience of the document library.

So first we need to activate the below site features. For this Open the SharePoint site settings page and then click on manage site features and then you can see below two features, activate these two features.

• Site Pages
• Wiki Page Home Page

Next is we need to make sure to enable modern UI features for site pages to document library. For this Open the document library and then go to Library settings-> Advanced settings.

And then go to List experience and choose the radio button (New experience) like below:

Once all the things are set close the browser and refresh. Next time you will open Site Pages, you suppose to get the Site Page option as shown below.

Sometimes, after doing all these also, I can not see the Create site pages option. So we have to enable the site page option in the SharePoint Online admin center.

Open SharePoint Online admin center and go to the settings page. If you are using modern SharePoint Online admin center, then you can also directly access the Settings page from the below URL:

https://yourtenantname-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/TenantSettings.aspx

Then you will see an option as Site Pages. Here make sure Allow users to create Site Pages option is enabled.

If not enabled, enable it and it will take 3/4 hours to reflect.

Here, we saw, how to solve the error create site page option missing in SharePoint Online modern sites. We saw how to enable create site page option in SharePoint Online modern site.

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Site assets library missing SharePoint Online

Let us see, how to solve the site pages library missing in SharePoint Online or SharePoint 2013 issue. Also, sometimes you do not see the Welcome Page link under Look and Feel in the Site Settings page in SharePoint Online/2013/2016/2019.

Open SharePoint Online/2013 site, from the right side, click on the Settings icon and then click on Site Settings.

Under Site Actions click on “Manage site features”.

Then on the Site Features page, search for the “Wiki Page Home Page” feature and click on Activate.

Now, go to Site Settings > Under Look and Feel click on Welcome Page. It will appear like below:

Similarly, the site pages library will also be available in the SharePoint Online/2013 site.

This is how to solve the site pages library missing in SharePoint 2013/2016 or SharePoint Online.

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In this SharePoint tutorial, we will discuss:

• What is a SharePoint Online site page?
• How to create site page in SharePoint Online?
• How to copy an existing site page and create a new page in SharePoint Online?
• How to copy a site page in SharePoint Online from one site to another site using Power Automate or Microsoft flow?
• Cannot create a site page. please have your administrator enable the required feature on this site
• Create site page option missing in SharePoint Online modern sites
• Site assets library missing SharePoint Online