I've just installed the simple hit counter, the one which comes out top of the list when you search WordPress plug-ins for hit counter.
It seems to be installed and activated and the author says I should put code like this somewhere on my page to make the hit counter display.
<?= simplehitcounter_hit(); ?>
The trouble is, where should I put it? I'm using a static page as my home page and would like it to appear there. I've pasted this code into the HTML of the home page but that doesn't work, presumably because it's php code. I've also tried pasting it into the index.php but still nothing.
As you can tell, I'm not very good at this so any help would be much appreciated.