Create SharePoint 2013 Page Using PowerShell

Background

I was continuing with my SharePoint journey. Today’s my topic was to create custom page based on a Custom Page Layout in our Site Collection. In this blog, I will provide self-described script and this script will create the page using our custom page layout. This script will create the pages in a publishing portal only. If you want to create page in other than publishing site then you need to change the script accordingly.

It is a very straight forward script. I have a publishing site and my custom Page Layout has been deployed on the Publishing site as following figure.

Files

Now following script will create the page in provided web site.

Script:

  • Add the PowerShell Snapin

    $snapin = Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell'}
    if ($snapin -eq $null)
    {
       Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell"
    }

  • Get the required Site URL,

    $SiteUrl = "https://MySiteCollectionURL"

  • Get the required Web URL (here my web is the root web, so the web url is same as site url)

    $WebUrl = "https://MyWebURL"

  • Get my custom PageLayout,

    $PageLayoutRelUrl = "/_catalogs/masterpage/Kirti_CustomPageLayout.aspx"

  • Get the Page URL,

    $PageName = "Kirti.aspx"

  • Get the Title of the Page which is going to get created,

    $PageTitle = "Kirti"

  • Initialize the Site Object,

    $Site = Get-SPSite($SiteUrl)

  • Get the Publishing Site based on the SPSite,

    $PubSite = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingSite($Site)

  • Get the SPWeb Object,

    $Web = Get-SPWeb $WebUrl

  • Initialize the Publishing Web based on the SPWeb,

    $PubWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($Web)

  • Get all PageLayouts Installed on the Publishing Site,

    $Layouts = $PubSite.GetPageLayouts($False)

  • Get my custom PageLayout,

    $PageLayout = $Layouts[$PageLayoutRelUrl]

  • Create a new publishing page using my custom page layout.

    $Page = $PubWeb.AddPublishingPage($PageName, $PageLayout)

  • Assign the Title to newly created Page,

    $Page.Title = $PageTitle

  • Update the Page,

    $Page.Update();

  • Check in the Page with Comments,

    $Page.CheckIn("Kirti Page created")

  • Publish the Page with Comments

    $Page.ListItem.File.Publish("Kirti page Published ")

After running the script, my required page created in the site as shown in following figure.

pages

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