Custom User model fields (AbstractUser) not showing in django admin

Question

I have extended User model for django, using AbstractUser method. The problem is, my custom fields do not show in django admin panel.

My models.py:

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Answer 1

The quickest way to show your extra fields in the Django Admin panel for an AbstractUser model is to unpack the UserAdmin.fieldsets tuple to a list in your admin.py, then edit to insert your field/s in the relevant section and repack as a tuple (see below).
Add this code in admin.py of your Django app

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from .models import User

fields = list(UserAdmin.fieldsets)
fields[0] = (None, {'fields': ('username', 'password', 'is_bot_flag')})
UserAdmin.fieldsets = tuple(fields)

admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)

Note:
list(UserAdmin.fieldsets) gives the following list:

[  (None, {'fields': ('username', 'password')}), 
   ('Personal info', {'fields': ('first_name', 'last_name', 'email')}), 
   ('Permissions', {'fields': ('is_active', 'is_staff', 'is_superuser', 'groups', 
'user_permissions')}), 
   ('Important dates', {'fields': ('last_login', 'date_joined')})
]

These fields are by default in Django user models, and here we are modifying the first index of the list to add our custom fields.