How to develop on a new independant page?

Hello,

I am a new WP developer. So far, I have been coding on page.php. But I’d like to work on an independent page. So I created a php file and placed it on the root folder of my WP installation. and placed this simple code to display a post’s title.

<?php 
echo "Get title: ";
echo get_the_title( 6 ); 
?>

It displayed the text “Get title:” but not the post title I was trying to get. The code worked without issue when placed on page.php.

Can you explain to me what I am doing wrong? Is it possible to create an independent page this way? If yes, how?

Thank you very much.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by vmackey1.