Microsoft 365 – SharePoint online – hiding site title using PnP PowerShell

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Today learned new small SharePoint online site feature so sharing ! SHARING IS CARING 🙂

Learning – How to hide SharePoint online site title using UI (from Site) and PnP PowerShell Set-PnPWeb

Details / Background

• In one of our project of SharePoint online – we have requirement of hiding site title
• For single site we could easily do it from UI
• But in our case we have prepared our custom site template and creating sites using our custom template
• We were using PnP provisioning site template
• Through PnP provisioning (from template XML file), I couldnt found the way to hide site title
• Then found the PnP CMDLET – Set-PnPWeb

Steps to hide site title from UI

• Navigate to the site on which we need to hide – Title
• Here I am using my local development tenant – knowledgejunction1
• I am demonstrating on root site

• From right top corner click on “gear” icon
• Right pane “Settings” will appear as shown in below fig
• Kindly please click on last link – “Change the look”

• As we click on “Change the look” link, “Change the look” pane from right side will open as shown in below fig
• From “Change the look” pane we need to navigate on “Header” section

• As we click on “Header” section, “Header” section pop-up will appear as

• From “Header” section right pane, we have an option / setting / flag – “Site title visibility” as shown in above fig
• Just turn off the flag and click on “Save” button
• As in “Header” section we click on “Save” button, our site title will disappear as shown in below fig

Steps to hide site title using PnP PowerShell

• As we have requirement to hide our communication site titles using PowerShell, we tried PnP PowerShell
• There is PnP PowerShell CMDLET called – Set-PnPWeb having attribute –HideTitleInHeader
• Connect to the site on which we need to hide – Title
• We will use Connect-PnPOnline to connect the site

Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com

• As we successfully connected to respective site, we will use “Set-PnPWeb” PnP PowerShell CMDLET to hide site title
• We will use “-HideTitleInHeader” attribute of “Set-PnPWeb” CMDLET to hide site title

Set-PnPWeb -HideTitleInHeader

REFERENCES

https://github.com/pnp/powershell/blob/dev/documentation/Set-PnPWeb.md

Thanks for reading ! HAVE a FANTASTIC LEARNING 🙂 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂