From 68a6949d446fc978a50e71c405bd1d0a496d597c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: westi <westi@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:51:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Check to see if we have an author before displaying it. See
 #9948.

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@11471 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/default-widgets.php | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/default-widgets.php b/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
index f5159809a..d2bebc802 100644
--- a/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
+++ b/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
@@ -823,8 +823,10 @@ function wp_widget_rss_output( $rss, $args = array() ) {
 		$author = '';
 		if ( $show_author ) {
 			$author = $item->get_author();
-			$author = $author->get_name();
-			$author = ' <cite>' . esc_html( strip_tags( $author ) ) . '</cite>';
+			if ( is_object($author) ) {
+				$author = $author->get_name();
+				$author = ' <cite>' . esc_html( strip_tags( $author ) ) . '</cite>';
+			}
 		}
 
 		if ( $link == '' ) {