How would I implement popular posts onto he homepage?

Hello,

Great plugin! Just got a few questions about implementing it.

I want to get rid of the posts on my homepage and replace them with this plugin on the lower left hand side with my own CSS.

I have added <?php nrelate_related() ?> and checker is_home option in layout. However it doesn’t appear.

I have also tried simply adding the shortcode to a text section on the homepage which also didn’t work.

Also, I was wondering, even if it did show up where would it be positioned? So I came up with the idea of putting in a div which my theme uses. i.e.

<?php if(is_home()) { ?>

<div class="flex_column av_one_half first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-first  "> nrelate_related() </div>

<div class="flex_column av_one_half   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  "></div>

<?php } ?>

Unfortunately my PHP skills aren’t very good at all so I assume this code would work, but if can understand from the above code what the idea is, would you know how the right code to do it?

Thanks in advance for any help! ??

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