SharePoint New Landing Page and Templates Gallery

Introduction

Microsoft is refining the SharePoint experience to make content creation easier, more visual, and faster. Two exciting features rolled out in 2024–2025 are:

• A new SharePoint landing page that offers a centralized space for managing all your page content.
• A redesigned Templates Gallery for Pages, making it simpler than ever to start from a professional layout.

Whether you’re a site owner, content manager, or communications specialist, these features will help you organize and publish pages more efficiently. Let’s explore them in depth.

New SharePoint Landing Page

This new SharePoint landing experience functions like the homepage of other Microsoft 365 apps (like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint). When you navigate to the new landing page (also available through the URL: /_layouts/15/begin.aspx), you’re greeted with a sleek, personalized dashboard.

At the top of the page, you’ll see template suggestions—curated starting points for your next page, such as event recaps, announcements, or status updates. These templates appear as tiles with images and brief descriptions, giving you a head start on new content.

Beneath that section, you’ll find a scrollable list of your recent pages, whether they’re in draft, published, or scheduled states. For each page, you’ll see:

• Page name
• Site it belongs to
• Number of views
• Last modified date
• Page owner or last editor

It’s more than just a file list—it’s an activity-driven command center where you can:

• Jump into unfinished work
• Track engagement at a glance
• Quickly spin up new content using suggestions or templates

This interface offers a productivity-first approach, allowing users to start with context instead of navigating across multiple sites and libraries. It essentially treats page authorship as a first-class experience within SharePoint.

💡 Tip: You can access this page via the SharePoint app in Microsoft 365 or directly through /begin.aspx.

Templates Gallery: Pages

The Templates Gallery is a visual library of pre-designed SharePoint pages, integrated seamlessly into the content creation process. It’s accessible in two key places:

1. From the SharePoint landing page
2. Within any SharePoint site via New → Page

When creating a new page, you’ll be prompted to choose from:

• Out-of-the-box Microsoft templates: Professionally designed for events, newsletters, dashboards, policies, and more.
• Custom templates: Created and saved by your organization’s users for reuse across teams or departments.
• Saved on this site: Personalized templates created by you or others within a specific site.

Each template includes web part layouts, headings, and placeholder text/images. Once selected, you’re free to:

• Replace content while maintaining layout
• Add or remove web parts
• Move sections and columns

And most importantly, editing a page created from a template doesn’t alter the original template. You can also save any page you design as a new custom template, which then appears in the gallery under “Saved on this site.”

The gallery makes it much easier to:

• Maintain visual and branding consistency
• Speed up the creation of recurring content types
• Encourage best practices across content creators

💡 Tip: Admins can manage templates in the Site Pages library or package them for cross-site reuse.

Comparison Summary

Best Practices

• Bookmarkhttps://tenant.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/begin.aspx for quick access to all your SharePoint content authoring tools.
• Create and save templates for team-wide reuse, especially for repeatable communications like project updates or internal news.
• Use page analytics (views, modified dates) to evaluate which pages resonate most with readers.
• Train contributors to use templates to reduce formatting errors and ensure brand alignment.

Final Thoughts

The new SharePoint Landing Page and Templates Gallery are more than just aesthetic upgrades—they’re productivity multipliers. Together, they create a consistent, streamlined, and scalable authoring experience that supports modern workplace communication.

Ready to explore these features in your SharePoint environment? Try visiting the new SharePoint pages hub or create a new page today—you’ll feel the difference immediately.