Prevent users from creating Site Pages – SharePoint admin center in Office365

Introduction

Usually users who have permission level greater than Contribute (Contribute, Edit, Design, Full Control) level will be able to create Site Pages in a SharePoint site.

Creating site pages feature can be disabled from SharePoint admin center, so that any user will not have the option to create site pages.

Steps

1. Go to SharePoint admin center in Office 365
2. Go to settings
   
   


3. Under section “Site Pages”
4. Select ”Prevent users from creating Site Pages”
   
   


5. Click OK at the bottom
6. Now your users including the site collection administrators will not see create Site Pages option from the “New” dropdown action.
   
   

What does “Prevent users from creating Site Pages” in SharePoint admin center option do?

• It prevent users from only creating Site Pages (which are modern site pages), the users can create Wiki Pages and Web Part Pages