Using chatgpt to create addons for Xenforo?

[Hristo Avramov]

Have you had success?
I did manage to create some addon that is installable, but there is no options or anything and when I ask chatgpt to fix it, it says it did, but the actual content of the addon never shows anywhere like - options or frontend. Probably I am missing something, did someone actually achieve more than me and what am I missing?

 

[wmtech]

I doubt KI is able to create a full-fledged XenForo Add-on from scratch.
But it can speed up programming of any software for professionals.

 

[philmckrackon]

Side note. I have found Grok to be a much more in-depth technical AI. Helped me with a WHM Auto SSL issue where ChatGPT was very far off base. Also helped me solve a Qnap TVS four bay NAS boot problem.
Also wrote some very complicated JavaScript code.

 

[Yenxji]

Have you had success?
I did manage to create some addon that is installable, but there is no options or anything and when I ask chatgpt to fix it, it says it did, but the actual content of the addon never shows anywhere like - options or frontend. Probably I am missing something, did someone actually achieve more than me and what am I missing?

No, it wasn't the best or the most successful. ChatGPT is worse and trash for writing and coding tasks.

I'd recommend Claude Sonnet 4.5. I've made an addon come with an AI assistant, it's pretty helpful.

I recommend creating the addon for the following AI models:

• Grok Code Fast 1
• Grok 4 Fast
• Claude Sonnet 4.5
• Gemini 2.5 Pro
• MiniMax M2

These are highly ranked for better writing, coding, and task performance.

 

[Itworx4me]

No, it wasn't the best or the most successful. ChatGPT is worse and trash for writing and coding tasks.

I'd recommend Claude Sonnet 4.5. I've made an addon come with an AI assistant, it's pretty helpful.

I recommend creating the addon for the following AI models:

• Grok Code Fast 1
• Grok 4 Fast
• Claude Sonnet 4.5
• Gemini 2.5 Pro
• MiniMax M2

These are highly ranked for better writing, coding, and task performance.

I am curious...Why did you choose Claude over Grok?

 

[JulianD]

I am curious...Why did you choose Claude over Grok?

I can tell you my personal experience. I am currently testing Claude Code for XenForo development and it’s been working really well. Before that, I used GitHub Copilot but the agent mode struggled a lot to understand the XenForo code base. I decided to try Claude Code and it was able to very quickly understand what needed to be done and create the corresponding code. It even was able to understand the CLI commands and suggest which ones needs to be run in order to complete a task.

 

[Itworx4me]

I can tell you my personal experience. I am currently testing Claude Code for XenForo development and it’s been working really well. Before that, I used GitHub Copilot but the agent mode struggled a lot to understand the XenForo code base. I decided to try Claude Code and it was able to very quickly understand what needed to be done and create the corresponding code. It even was able to understand the CLI commands and suggest which ones needs to be run in order to complete a task.

I’ve been using Claude too—I was just wondering why he went with that one when he had Grok listed higher.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Claude seems the best for making Obsidian.md plugins.

 

[RobinHood]

Within the IDE I've found Claude the best in general. Usually 4.5, sometimes Opus 4.1 for particularly tough stuff. Apparently Grok is free in Cursor at the moment, but I refuse to use it.

I use both ChatGPT and Claude web UIs for general chat, brainstorming and troubleshooting though. The ChatGPT general chat is good, I just default to claude within the IDE most of the time.