diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 68d9fc15..b602eb8f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ script:
  - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/ImageMagick.jl.git"); Pkg.checkout("ImageMagick","tb_write"); Pkg.build("ImageMagick")'
  - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/VisualRegressionTests.jl.git");'
  - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/ExamplePlots.jl.git");'
- - julia -e 'Pkg.checkout("Blink"); Pkg.build("Blink"); Blink.AtomShell.install()'
+ - julia -e 'Pkg.checkout("Blink"); Pkg.build("Blink"); import Blink; Blink.AtomShell.install()'
  - julia -e 'Pkg.checkout("PlotlyJS")'
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.add("Cairo"); Pkg.build("Cairo")'
  - julia -e 'ENV["PYTHON"] = ""; Pkg.add("PyPlot"); Pkg.build("PyPlot")'
diff --git a/src/backends/plotly.jl b/src/backends/plotly.jl
index cd7f6e5b..d44c8793 100644
--- a/src/backends/plotly.jl
+++ b/src/backends/plotly.jl
@@ -404,6 +404,12 @@ function plotly_series(d::KW; plot_index = nothing)
       )
   end
 
+  # convert polar plots x/y to r/t
+  if get(d, :polar, false)
+      d_out[:r] = pop!(d_out, :x)
+      d_out[:t] = pop!(d_out, :y)
+  end
+
   # # for subplots, we need to add the xaxis/yaxis fields
   # if plot_index != nothing
   #   d_out[:xaxis] = "x$(plot_index)"