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Django Custom User

sometimes we don’t want to use only the feilds available in the built in user model or we want to change some feilds , for example we may want to make the user log in by using email instead of the username

in today’s read I will walk with you in the steps of how to create a custom user model

create an app and add it in the installed apps in the settings

let’s call our new app “account”

INSTALLED_APPS = [
```
  'account',   ]
```

then add AUTH_USER_MODEL

  AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'account.CustomUser'

we will start bulding our custom model inside the app “account” model

import AbstractUser

  from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser

create a class “a model” and let’s call it “Account”, then fill it with the fields you want
```
  class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
  pass
  # add additional fields in here
```

create a new file in the accounts app called forms.py
```
 touch account/forms.py
```

We’ll update it with the following code to largely subclass the existing forms.

 from django import forms
 from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
 from .models import CustomUser

 class CustomUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):

     class Meta:
         model = CustomUser
         fields = ('username', 'email')

 class CustomUserChangeForm(UserChangeForm):

     class Meta:
         model = CustomUser
         fields = ('username', 'email')

Finally we update admin.py since the Admin is highly coupled to the default User model.

 # accounts/admin.py
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin

 from .forms import CustomUserCreationForm, CustomUserChangeForm
 from .models import CustomUser

 class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
     add_form = CustomUserCreationForm
     form = CustomUserChangeForm
     model = CustomUser
     list_display = ['email', 'username',]

 admin.site.register(CustomUser, CustomUserAdmin)