SharePoint 2013 : WebPart Maintenance Page

This article will describe how to navigate to web part maintenance page and How this page can save you in case of Something went wrong on SharePoint Site Custom page.

Introduction

Web part maintenance page is a OOB page which is used to maintain a list of web part on SharePoint page. A SharePoint web part which is causing an issue an issue for page can be removed using this page. Basically this page provides a list of web parts added in perticular page and you have an option to Close/remove these web parts from SharePoint Page.

Solution

1. Through UI :
   
   
   • Go to the pages library and select the page for which we are getting an error.
     
     
   • Right click , Edit Properties and go to the bottom of the page there you will find an link as shown in below image.
     
     
     
     
2. Using Query String parameter:
   
   Simply add ?Contents=1 at the end of the page URL; It will navigate you to Web part maintenance page. So if your page URL is http://XYZ.SharePoint.com/sites/SiteCollection/Pages/TestPage.aspx then after appending query string it should be like http://XYZ.SharePoint.com/sites/SiteCollection/Pages/TestPage.aspx?contents=1

However this is not recommended to remove the web part from page like this; as it may affect the normal page functionality.

Happy SharePointing !!!!