totalbsroc

For those looking to fix this sooner, I was able to resolve by replacing the public function render with the below update function:

public function render( $params ) {

    $p = array(
        'id' => ( isset($params['id']) ? (int) $params['id'] : 0 ),
        'mode' => ( isset($params['mode']) && $params['mode'] == 'widget' ? 'widget' : '' ),
    );

    return $this->getView()->renderHtml( $p );
}