For anyone else looking for this information to modify that specific widget functions I was able to figure it out.
The actual latest news slider widget sits in the parent theme (newsup) folder in:
newsup > inc > ansar > widget
however, you do not need to break the integrity of these files because the theme creator used hooks to extend certain functions for this widget. The location for the hook file is in:
newsup > inc > ansar > hooks > hooks.php
The slider code starts at the second function.
I was able to completely modify this code to display my custom data using the theme’s slider.
