public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		if ( isset( $instance['error'] ) && $instance['error'] ) {
			return;
		}

		$url = ! empty( $instance['url'] ) ? $instance['url'] : '';
		while ( stristr( $url, 'http' ) != $url ) {
			$url = substr( $url, 1 );
		}

		if ( empty( $url ) ) {
			return;
		}

		// self-url destruction sequence
		if ( in_array( untrailingslashit( $url ), array( site_url(), home_url() ) ) ) {
			return;
		}

		$rss   = fetch_feed( $url );
		$title = $instance['title'];
		$desc  = '';
		$link  = '';

		if ( ! is_wp_error( $rss ) ) {
			$desc = esc_attr( strip_tags( html_entity_decode( $rss->get_description(), ENT_QUOTES, get_option( 'blog_charset' ) ) ) );
			if ( empty( $title ) ) {
				$title = strip_tags( $rss->get_title() );
			}
			$link = strip_tags( $rss->get_permalink() );
			while ( stristr( $link, 'http' ) != $link ) {
				$link = substr( $link, 1 );
			}
		}

		if ( empty( $title ) ) {
			$title = ! empty( $desc ) ? $desc : __( 'Unknown Feed' );
		}

		/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-pages.php */
		$title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $title, $instance, $this->id_base );

		$url  = strip_tags( $url );
		$icon = includes_url( 'images/rss.png' );
		if ( $title ) {
			$title = '<a class="rsswidget" href="' . esc_url( $url ) . '"><img class="rss-widget-icon" style="border:0" width="14" height="14" src="' . esc_url( $icon ) . '" alt="RSS" /></a> <a class="rsswidget" href="' . esc_url( $link ) . '">' . esc_html( $title ) . '</a>';
		}

		echo $args['before_widget'];
		if ( $title ) {
			echo $args['before_title'] . $title . $args['after_title'];
		}
		wp_widget_rss_output( $rss, $instance );
		echo $args['after_widget'];

		if ( ! is_wp_error( $rss ) ) {
			$rss->__destruct();
		}
		unset( $rss );
	}