diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..79e8a584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# After changing this file, check it on:
+#   http://lint.travis-ci.org/
+language: python
+python:
+  - 3.3
+  - 2.7
+before_install:
+  - pip install --upgrade pip setuptools  # Upgrade pip and setuptools to get ones with `wheel` support
+  - pip install --find-links http://wheels.astropy.org/ --find-links http://wheels2.astropy.org/ --use-wheel --use-mirrors nose numpy matplotlib Sphinx
+script:
+  - python setup.py test
diff --git a/numpydoc/docscrape_sphinx.py b/numpydoc/docscrape_sphinx.py
index ba93b2ea..cdc2a37d 100644
--- a/numpydoc/docscrape_sphinx.py
+++ b/numpydoc/docscrape_sphinx.py
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 
 class SphinxDocString(NumpyDocString):
     def __init__(self, docstring, config={}):
-        # Subclasses seemingly do not call this.
         NumpyDocString.__init__(self, docstring, config=config)
+        self.load_config(config)
 
     def load_config(self, config):
         self.use_plots = config.get('use_plots', False)
diff --git a/numpydoc/tests/test_phantom_import.py b/numpydoc/tests/test_phantom_import.py
index 173b5662..80fae08f 100644
--- a/numpydoc/tests/test_phantom_import.py
+++ b/numpydoc/tests/test_phantom_import.py
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 
-import numpydoc.phantom_import
+import sys
+from nose import SkipTest
+
+def test_import():
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        raise SkipTest("phantom_import not ported to Py3")
+
+    import numpydoc.phantom_import
 
 # No tests at the moment...
diff --git a/numpydoc/tests/test_plot_directive.py b/numpydoc/tests/test_plot_directive.py
index 0e511fcb..1ea10769 100644
--- a/numpydoc/tests/test_plot_directive.py
+++ b/numpydoc/tests/test_plot_directive.py
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 
-import numpydoc.plot_directive
+import sys
+from nose import SkipTest
+
+def test_import():
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        raise SkipTest("plot_directive not ported to Python 3 (use the one from Matplotlib instead)")
+    import numpydoc.plot_directive
 
 # No tests at the moment...
diff --git a/numpydoc/tests/test_traitsdoc.py b/numpydoc/tests/test_traitsdoc.py
index d36e5ddb..fe5078c4 100644
--- a/numpydoc/tests/test_traitsdoc.py
+++ b/numpydoc/tests/test_traitsdoc.py
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 
-import numpydoc.traitsdoc
+import sys
+from nose import SkipTest
+
+def test_import():
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        raise SkipTest("traitsdoc not ported to Python3")
+    import numpydoc.traitsdoc
 
 # No tests at the moment...