Title: Auto-Import/Sync
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Auto-Import/Sync

 *  [tobagouk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobagouk/)
 * (@tobagouk)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-importsync/)
 * Hi Katie, hi all,
    first of all, and again: million thanks for having brought
   this wonderful plugin to life, it’s a real time-saver!
 * One feature I for one am missing is an auto-update feature – would it be possible
   to integrate a routine that would import one’s zotero database into WP automatically,
   say, once a week or every three days? There’s other plugins where such a feature
   does work seamlessly and without problems (i.e. several of the WP database backup
   plugins floating around the WP-universe).
 * The background story for my recommendation is a site I’m administering, which
   brings academic staff from various fields of expertise together, and each and
   everone of them has a personal profile with her or his recent publications, which
   I organize via one central database in zotero. Currently, I usually have to manually
   update the zotero items in WP each time one of the researchers decides to update
   her or his publications entries, and an automation feature would tremendously
   help reducing my having to fiddle with the installation 🙂
 * thanks a lot in advance,
    and all best, tobagouk
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/)
 * (@kseaborn)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-importsync/#post-4346665)
 * I agree and I’m open to suggestions. There used to be an auto-update feature 
   but it wasn’t stable. My understanding is that CRONs do the job and I’m looking
   into that as a possible solution.
 *  [nikitas589](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikitas589/)
 * (@nikitas589)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-importsync/#post-4346885)
 * +1 for auto-sync.
    An alternative would be to leave the option to auto-sync to
   the user. (i.e. the user disables it if it doesn’t work) How can I help and where
   can I start/look for this? Thanks.
 *  [nikitas589](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikitas589/)
 * (@nikitas589)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-importsync/#post-4346886)
 * Sorry,
    I also noticed that if new items are added in a collection in zotero 
   they are imported during a sync – I must do a re-import (library or collections)
   for these. Is this the expected behaviour of Zotpress? Thanks again.
 *  [Bucketsaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bucketsaway/)
 * (@bucketsaway)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-importsync/#post-4346887)
 * +1 for auto-syncing. I’m sure we should be able to do it with the cron…
 *  Plugin Author [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/)
 * (@kseaborn)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-importsync/#post-4346898)
 * I’m looking into CRON alternatives but given the size of most people’s libraries
   I’m not sure if there’s a feasible solution (I’d really like this feature, too…
   major bummer).
 * There are issues with the sync which I’m looking into at present. Sorry about
   the inconvenience.

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 * Last reply from: [Katie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kseaborn/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-importsync/#post-4346898)
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