Sparkling Appcast
Sparkling Appcast allows you to use your WordPress site to distribute your macOS App via Sparkle offering an appcast.xml endpoint.
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·0 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Sparkling Appcast is a WordPress macos plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 362 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: iBar.
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Overview
Sparkling Appcast is a WordPress plugin. It allows you to use your WordPress site to distribute your macOS App via Sparkle. Sparkling Appcast supports multiple channels (alpha, beta, …).
Sparkling Appcast exposes a new shortcode to display a list of app builds.
[sappcast_display_builds sappcast_channel="{channel-id-or-slug}"]
Configure Sparkle to ingest the appcast.xml at https://your.site/wp-json/sparkling-appcast/v1/appcast.xml. You will see something like the following XML.
<rss xmlns:sparkle="http://www.andymatuschak.org/xml-namespaces/sparkle" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>MyApp</title>
<link>/wp-json/sparkling-appcast/v1/appcast.xml</link>
<item>
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| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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