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.



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.