Working with web parts programmatically across pages is awkward but possible in PowerShell. Let\u2019s start by generating a report of the web parts. This iterates through non-admin web apps, site collections, and pages:<\/p>\n
$oContentService = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService;\r\n[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplicationCollection]$waCollection = $oContentService.WebApplications;\r\n$log = \".\\results.txt\" # output file name and path\r\n$pagepath = \"\/default.aspx\" # you can change page name or page path \r\n\"Site URL; WebPart Title ; Webpart ID\" | out-file $log\r\n$waCollection1 = $waCollection | where-object {$_.IsAdministrationWebApplication -eq $FALSE}\r\nforeach ($wa in $waCollection1)\r\n{\r\nforeach ($obj in $wa.Sites) \r\n{\r\nwrite-host \"Processing site: \" , $siteURL\r\n$siteURL = $obj.URL\r\n \r\n$site=new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteURL)\r\n \r\n$pageURL = $siteURL + $pagepath \r\n$web=$site.Openweb() \r\n$webpartmanager=$web.GetLimitedWebPartManager($pageURL, [System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PersonalizationScope]::Shared) \r\nforeach ($webpart in $webpartmanager.WebParts)\r\n{ \r\n $siteURL + \"; \" + $webpart.Title + \" ; \" + $webpart.ID | out-file $log -append \r\n} \r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\r\n\r\nAs an example, we can remove web parts programmatically, by specifying the site collection and Web Part GUID:\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n$siteURL = \"ht tp:\/\/SharePoint\/sites\/specialsite\"; # first constant: site URL\r\n$webpartId = \"; # second argument: webpart GUID\r\n$pagepath = \"\/default.aspx\" # change page name or page path here\r\n$pageURL = $siteURL + $pagepath\r\nwrite-host \"Processing site: \", $siteURL\r\nWrite-host \"Processing page: \" , $pageURL\r\nwrite-host \"Processing webpart ID: \" , $webpartID\r\n$site=new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteURL)\r\n$web=$site.Openweb()\r\n$webpartmanager=$web.GetLimitedWebPartManager($pageURL, [System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PersonalizationScope]::Shared)\r\n$webpartmanager.DeleteWebPart($webpartmanager.Webparts[$webpartId])\r\n$web.Update()\r\n$web.Dispose()\r\nwrite-host \"Finished.\"\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Working with web parts programmatically across pages is awkward but possible in PowerShell. Let\u2019s start by generating a report of the web parts. This iterates through non-admin web apps, site collections, and pages: $oContentService = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService; [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplicationCollection]$waCollection = $oContentService.WebApplications; $log = “.\\results.txt” # output file name and path $pagepath = “\/default.aspx” # you can change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}