About this plugin
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}"]
xml. You will see something like the following XML.
[CDATA[ This version is better but not yet released! zip" length="4713394" type="application/octet-stream"/> </item> </channel> </rss>
Configuration
To get started name the application you want to distribute on your WordPress site. You can find the settings page under the App Builds menu.
If you have multiple channels besides stable, you can should add them on wp-admin under the App Builds menu.
Usage
Fastlane
We recommend you use the wp_sparkling_appcast plugin to upload assets and create builds.
Other
To distribute a new build, you must upload the asset (1), create a build draft (2), after which you can finalize the build and publish it (3). Steps 1 and 2 are typically executed by your build server, while step 3 is done by a human.
1. Uploading Asset
zip'
2. Create Build Draft
curl --location 'localhost:8088/wp-json/wp/v2/sappcast_app_build' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --user "${USER}:${APPLICATION_PASSWORD}" \ --data '{ "meta": { "sappcast_app_build_version": string, "sappcast_app_build_number": int, "sappcast_app_build_min_system_version": string, "sappcast_app_build_attachment_id": int, "sappcast_app_build_changelog": string, }, "sappcast_channel": int, "status": "draft" }'
3. Publish Build
The user may now go to “App Build” on wp-admin and publish the draft after verifying the build. xml ).