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I would also like to change the related posts calendar icon image to something else, and I think that happens in the CSS.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for your help \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1014949","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>replace date time icon on event list shortcode with featured image -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/replace-date-time-icon-on-event-list-shortcode-with-featured-image\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"replace date time icon on event list shortcode with featured image -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m new to customizing template files, but I&#8217;m going to give it a shot, but I wanted to be clear on some things (please pardon my kindergarten-level experience here): 1. 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