I'm still a bit of a noob but I say you go back to default settings and create another model which has a OnetoOne relationship with the User model that way you can add additional fields about a user account & etc and not break things on the backend.
from django.contrib.auth.models import User class Member(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE) firstname = models.CharField(max_length=32,default="",verbose_name="First name") On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 10:14:21 AM UTC+10, Dave N wrote: > > I've been trying to customize a django auth_user_model, and it has led me > to the latest error/issue, which can be found here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37197771/django-attributeerror-usermanager-object-has-no-attribute-create-superuser > > Please help get me out of Django config hell, so I can continue coding my > project.. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/cdad478f-e22e-4a5b-bcbd-737157db9b82%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.