public function widget( $args, $instance ) {

    // Merge with defaults.
    $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, $this->defaults );

    // phpcs:ignore WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
    echo $args['before_widget'];

    if ( ! empty( $instance['title'] ) ) {
      // phpcs:ignore WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
      echo $args['before_title'] . apply_filters( 'widget_title', $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base ) . $args['after_title'];
    }

    $text = '';

    if ( ! empty( $instance['alignment'] ) ) {
      $text .= '<span class="align' . esc_attr( $instance['alignment'] ) . '">';
    }

    $text .= get_avatar( $instance['user'], $instance['size'] );

    if ( ! empty( $instance['alignment'] ) ) {
      $text .= '</span>';
    }

    if ( 'text' === $instance['author_info'] ) {
      $text .= $instance['bio_text']; // We run KSES on update.
    } else {
      $text .= get_the_author_meta( 'description', $instance['user'] );
    }

    $text .= $instance['page'] ? sprintf( ' <a class="pagelink" href="%s">%s</a>', get_page_link( $instance['page'] ), $instance['page_link_text'] ) : '';

    // phpcs:ignore WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
    echo wpautop( $text );

    // If posts link option checked, add posts link to output.
    $display_name = esc_html( get_the_author_meta( 'display_name', $instance['user'] ) );
    $user_name    = ( ! empty( $display_name ) && genesis_a11y( 'screen-reader-text' ) ) ? '<span class="screen-reader-text">' . $display_name . ': </span>' : '';

    if ( $instance['posts_link'] ) {
      printf( '<div class="posts_link posts-link"><a href="%s">%s%s</a></div>', esc_url( get_author_posts_url( $instance['user'] ) ), $user_name, esc_html__( 'View My Blog Posts', 'genesis' ) ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped -- $user_name escaped above
    }

    echo $args['after_widget']; // phpcs:ignore WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped -- Need to build the widget HTML.

  }