Thanks very much Elfin. it took a bit of muddling about with the syntax and placement but finally got it up and running on a xampp testing server on my laptop.
It’ll go live soon
so my solution was to use the do_shortcode thus…
<?php echo (do_shortcode("[eshop_random_products panels='yes' imgsize='30' records='9' show='9']")); ?>
That is written directly into my home.php file inside a div called homereleasescontent and is obviously stylable (sic?) with CSS
Hopefully that’ll help someone else if they get the same problem
