Custom WordPress Single Post Page

Question

I am working on a website here: http://jordanvalentin.com/testing.php

All of the pages are just plain php that are connected to WordPress to pull the posts and content of pages.

When on the main page, when you click the post title it goes to the single.php of the WordPress theme installed.

How do I go about creating a custom single.php that is styled similarly to my other pages? Is it as easy as editing the single.php of the current theme? Or is it best practice to create my own entire theme rather than just connecting WP to certain pages?

Answer 1

You should create a Child theme for your Wordpress theme and edit your single.php in your child theme folder. More informations in the codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Once your child theme has been created, you can simply duplicate the original single.php file and make your edits without damaging your theme, and without losing your edits if you update your theme.