diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index f253811ce..a33e4ad9b 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 
 .gitattributes export-ignore
 .gitignore export-ignore
+.travis.yml export-ignore
 phpunit.xml export-ignore
 /tests/ export-ignore
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18b7f6988
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+sudo: false
+
+language: php
+
+notifications:
+  email:
+    on_success: never
+    on_failure: change
+
+branches:
+  only:
+    - master
+
+php:
+  - 5.3
+  - 5.6
+  - 7.1
+
+env:
+  - WP_VERSION=latest WP_MULTISITE=0
+  - WP_VERSION=4.4 WP_MULTISITE=0
+
+matrix:
+  include:
+    - php: 5.6
+      env: WP_VERSION=latest WP_MULTISITE=1
+
+before_script:
+  - bash tests/bin/install-wp-tests.sh wordpress_test root '' localhost $WP_VERSION
+  - export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
+  - |
+    if [[ ${TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION:0:2} == "7." ]]; then
+      composer global require "phpunit/phpunit=5.7.*"
+    else
+      composer global require "phpunit/phpunit=4.8.*"
+    fi
+
+script:
+  - phpunit
diff --git a/tests/bin/install-wp-tests.sh b/tests/bin/install-wp-tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..73bb4c787
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/bin/install-wp-tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
+	echo "usage: $0 <db-name> <db-user> <db-pass> [db-host] [wp-version] [skip-database-creation]"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+DB_NAME=$1
+DB_USER=$2
+DB_PASS=$3
+DB_HOST=${4-localhost}
+WP_VERSION=${5-latest}
+SKIP_DB_CREATE=${6-false}
+
+WP_TESTS_DIR=${WP_TESTS_DIR-/tmp/wordpress-tests-lib}
+WP_CORE_DIR=${WP_CORE_DIR-/tmp/wordpress/}
+
+download() {
+    if [ `which curl` ]; then
+        curl -s "$1" > "$2";
+    elif [ `which wget` ]; then
+        wget -nv -O "$2" "$1"
+    fi
+}
+
+if [[ $WP_VERSION =~ [0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)? ]]; then
+	WP_TESTS_TAG="tags/$WP_VERSION"
+elif [[ $WP_VERSION == 'nightly' || $WP_VERSION == 'trunk' ]]; then
+	WP_TESTS_TAG="trunk"
+else
+	# http serves a single offer, whereas https serves multiple. we only want one
+	download http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/ /tmp/wp-latest.json
+	grep '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?' /tmp/wp-latest.json
+	LATEST_VERSION=$(grep -o '"version":"[^"]*' /tmp/wp-latest.json | sed 's/"version":"//')
+	if [[ -z "$LATEST_VERSION" ]]; then
+		echo "Latest WordPress version could not be found"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	WP_TESTS_TAG="tags/$LATEST_VERSION"
+fi
+
+set -ex
+
+install_wp() {
+
+	if [ -d $WP_CORE_DIR ]; then
+		return;
+	fi
+
+	mkdir -p $WP_CORE_DIR
+
+	if [[ $WP_VERSION == 'nightly' || $WP_VERSION == 'trunk' ]]; then
+		mkdir -p /tmp/wordpress-nightly
+		download https://wordpress.org/nightly-builds/wordpress-latest.zip  /tmp/wordpress-nightly/wordpress-nightly.zip
+		unzip -q /tmp/wordpress-nightly/wordpress-nightly.zip -d /tmp/wordpress-nightly/
+		mv /tmp/wordpress-nightly/wordpress/* $WP_CORE_DIR
+	else
+		if [ $WP_VERSION == 'latest' ]; then
+			local ARCHIVE_NAME='latest'
+		else
+			local ARCHIVE_NAME="wordpress-$WP_VERSION"
+		fi
+		download https://wordpress.org/${ARCHIVE_NAME}.tar.gz  /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz
+		tar --strip-components=1 -zxmf /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz -C $WP_CORE_DIR
+	fi
+
+	download https://raw.github.com/markoheijnen/wp-mysqli/master/db.php $WP_CORE_DIR/wp-content/db.php
+}
+
+install_test_suite() {
+	# portable in-place argument for both GNU sed and Mac OSX sed
+	if [[ $(uname -s) == 'Darwin' ]]; then
+		local ioption='-i .bak'
+	else
+		local ioption='-i'
+	fi
+
+	# set up testing suite if it doesn't yet exist
+	if [ ! -d $WP_TESTS_DIR ]; then
+		# set up testing suite
+		mkdir -p $WP_TESTS_DIR
+		svn co --quiet https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/${WP_TESTS_TAG}/tests/phpunit/includes/ $WP_TESTS_DIR/includes
+		svn co --quiet https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/${WP_TESTS_TAG}/tests/phpunit/data/ $WP_TESTS_DIR/data
+	fi
+
+	if [ ! -f wp-tests-config.php ]; then
+		download https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/${WP_TESTS_TAG}/wp-tests-config-sample.php "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		# remove all forward slashes in the end
+		WP_CORE_DIR=$(echo $WP_CORE_DIR | sed "s:/\+$::")
+		sed $ioption "s:dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/src/':'$WP_CORE_DIR/':" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s/youremptytestdbnamehere/$DB_NAME/" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s/yourusernamehere/$DB_USER/" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s/yourpasswordhere/$DB_PASS/" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s|localhost|${DB_HOST}|" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+	fi
+
+}
+
+install_db() {
+
+	if [ ${SKIP_DB_CREATE} = "true" ]; then
+		return 0
+	fi
+
+	# parse DB_HOST for port or socket references
+	local PARTS=(${DB_HOST//\:/ })
+	local DB_HOSTNAME=${PARTS[0]};
+	local DB_SOCK_OR_PORT=${PARTS[1]};
+	local EXTRA=""
+
+	if ! [ -z $DB_HOSTNAME ] ; then
+		if [ $(echo $DB_SOCK_OR_PORT | grep -e '^[0-9]\{1,\}$') ]; then
+			EXTRA=" --host=$DB_HOSTNAME --port=$DB_SOCK_OR_PORT --protocol=tcp"
+		elif ! [ -z $DB_SOCK_OR_PORT ] ; then
+			EXTRA=" --socket=$DB_SOCK_OR_PORT"
+		elif ! [ -z $DB_HOSTNAME ] ; then
+			EXTRA=" --host=$DB_HOSTNAME --protocol=tcp"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	# create database
+	mysqladmin create $DB_NAME --user="$DB_USER" --password="$DB_PASS"$EXTRA
+}
+
+install_wp
+install_test_suite
+install_db