My project has 5 panels that I want to control with shift registers, if I use shift registers that aren't daisy chained, can I use the same latch pin for all of them or do I need to use a separate one for each register?
Will that still work if I then daisy chain other register to the original 5?
if I use shift registers that aren't daisy chained, can I use the same latch pin for all of them
Yes but you do anyway then they are daisy chained. I don't see the advantage of using five separate shift registers, it will use a lot more pins because each one will need its own clock and data pin. Maybe you don't understand daisy chains and that is why you want to do it?
If you want to group the latch and not daisy chain hen you need separate data and clock lines (and thus need software SPI on a Uno). Otherwise there is no way of controlling them separate. Easier would be to use the same data and clock but another latch or CS.
But indeed, why not daisy chain them?