News Center web part

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Got lots of news? The News Center web part can help you categorize and tag them.

On the page where you need the web part, look for this web part:

Adding a news post

To add a news page, simply create it as usual in SharePoint:

If you want your news to sit in a particular folder in Site Pages, simply go to Site Pages library, and simply copy that page to any folder:

This folder can later be mapped to a category as described in the following section [Updating categories]

Updating categories

You can define categories on which users can filter news by:

Simply go to web part properties and click the button below:

In here, you can set the friendly Category Display Name (this will be shown to your users) and map it to the folder name (inside Site Pages library where the actual news live):

If you leave the folder empty, all pages from Site Pages will be displayed for that category (this is used for All News category).
If you need the News Center to pull news from another site simply enter full site + library + folder URL like in these examples:
-https://company_tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName/SitePages/FolderWithNews
-https://company_tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName

If Only show pages marked as ‘News’ is checked for a given category, then the web part will only show items that have been promoted as news and skip other pages.

NOTE: Please avoid news folders with the same name or partial match (for example: “Milestones” and “Milestones 1”) --this will confuse the web part. Instead, name folders “CompanyMilestones” and “EmployeeMilestones” as an example.

Updating web part styles

You can change a number of style options including these options below:

You can also change the color and sizing of web part elements, including below:

You can also select which elements show on the news card:

If Hide Author & Date is checked, the the web part will not show Author and Date for a given category–this is great if you want to show a list of links like this:

Categorize news by a metadata tag

Available in News Center version Jan 2, 2025
You can pull news items based on whether those items are present in a particular library view and not just based on the folder:

This means you can create a regular SharePoint view with any filters you desire and use URL of that view as a data source.

As a refresher, here is how you can create your custom view that can filter pages based on a defined category (hint: you can create any filter and category you like): Create SharePoint view that will filter pages by metadata

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Enabled 'New Folder' button in Site Pages

If you’d like to separate your site pages to be in different folders, you’ll need to create a folder in your Site Pages library first.

By default, Site Pages doesn’t have a ‘New Folder’ option, here are one-time steps to make it show:

• Go to (*) → Site contents → Site Pages
• Click (*) → Library settings → More library settings
• Click Advanced settings
• Select ‘New Folder’ option as shown below
  
  
• Scroll down and click OK
• Now you will see a Folder option when you go to Site Pages:
  
  

Show news from all sites under the hub site

Available in News Center version Feb 19, 2025

If you’d like a specific category to show news from multiple sites, you can set those sites be associated to a hub site and then set the category to read from this site like this:

Above, we have contoso.sharepoint.com set as hub site. If that hub site has sites associated with it, the category (in this case “All News”) will show pages/news from those associated sites.

Show news from select views under a single category

Available in News Center version Feb 2, 2026

You can pull news from multiple views (even views on different sites) and show them when user clicks on a single category button:

To set this up, simply comma separate your views when defining category in web part properties like this:

NOTE:
Pulling multiple views means the web part will perform several API calls and this can take a second to load news from that view, so if you have too many views this will affect loading performance.

Sort your news by date, popularity and more

You can set your news or pages by:

• Title - best for knowledgebase articles
• Modified Date or Created Date - best for news articles
• Number of Views - best for social posts

Here is how you can set this up per category:

Adjusting thumbnail image resolution

The web part lets you chose the thumbnail image resolution using web part properties.
Depending on the selection you make, the web part will retrieve the image from a different place on the page.

Here is how this toggle is managed:

Targeting news to an audience in SharePoint

Available in News Center – Version Jan 22, 2026

You can make it so news show only to members of specific M365 groups.
When creating a news in SharePoint, set the group in the Audience field in Page Details:

The News Center will show this news only to users who belong to your selected M365 group.

Don’t see the Audience field? You need to enable it in SharePoint first:

1. Go to Site contents on the site where your news pages are
2. Open the Site Pages and access its Settings
3. Click on Audience targeting
   
   
4. Check Enable audience targeting
5. Click OK

You will now see the Audience in your item details.