diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1180dbb6..e64de454 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Imports:
     stats
 Suggests: network
 LinkingTo: Rcpp
-RoxygenNote: 6.0.0.9000
+RoxygenNote: 6.0.1
 Depends:
     R (>= 2.10),
     ggplot2 (>= 2.0.0)
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ Collate:
     'layout_dendrogram.R'
     'layout_igraph.R'
     'layout_sec.R'
+    'plotly.R'
     'scale_edge_alpha.R'
     'scale_edge_colour.R'
     'scale_edge_fill.R'
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 08ed8a10..71a5afa3 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@ export(scale_edge_width_continuous)
 export(scale_edge_width_discrete)
 export(scale_edge_width_identity)
 export(scale_edge_width_manual)
+export(to_basic.GeomEdgeBezier)
+export(to_basic.GeomEdgeBspline)
+export(to_basic.GeomEdgeDensity)
+export(to_basic.GeomEdgePath)
+export(to_basic.GeomEdgeSegment)
+export(to_basic.GeomTreemap)
 export(treeApply)
 import(ggplot2)
 importFrom(MASS,bandwidth.nrd)
diff --git a/R/plotly.R b/R/plotly.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d5a05ee5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/plotly.R
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Translations for R/geom_axis_hive.R
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# TODO: waiting for an example
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Translations for R/geom_edge.R
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+toPath <- function(data, prestats_data, layout, params, p, ...) {
+  prefix_class(data, "GeomPath")
+}
+
+#' @export
+to_basic.GeomEdgePath <- toPath
+
+#' @export
+to_basic.GeomEdgeSegment <- toPath
+
+#' @export
+to_basic.GeomEdgeBezier <- toPath
+
+#' @export
+to_basic.GeomEdgeBspline <- toPath
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Translations for R/geom_edge_density.R
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#' @export
+to_basic.GeomEdgeDensity <- function(data, prestats_data, layout, params, p, ...) {
+  # avoid a weird precision issue
+  data$density[data$density < 0.005] <- 0
+  data$fill_plotlyDomain <- data$density
+  data$fill <- toRGB(
+    data$edge_fill, scales::rescale(data$density)
+  )
+  prefix_class(data, "GeomTile")
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Translations for R/geom_treemap.R
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#' @export
+to_basic.GeomTreemap <- getFromNamespace("to_basic.GeomRect", asNamespace("plotly"))
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Helper functions
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+prefix_class <- function(x, y) {
+  structure(x, class = unique(c(y, class(x))))
+}
+
+