Django 1.8+ extending the User model

Question

I know this question has been asked hundreds of times, but most of them contain -accepted- answers that are not valid anymore. Some of them are for Django 1.5, some of them are

Answer 1

First req for extending the user model: you have to start with a clean django project that you have not called the: "python manage.py migrate" command on.

This is because if you did migrated in the past, the un-extanded user model is already created an django doesn't know how to change it.

Now, to choose another user model the first thing you have to do is on your settings.py:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'APPNAME.Account'

It is recommended to create a new app to handle the user model. be aware not to call the app "account", as it collides with the already existing user model.

I created An app called accountb. on the models:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import UserManager
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser

class AccountManager(UserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, password=None, **kwargs):
        if not email:
            raise ValueError('Users must have a valid email address.')
        if not kwargs.get('username'):
            raise ValueError('Users must have a valid username.')

        account = self.model(
            email=self.normalize_email(email), 
            username=kwargs.get('username'), 
            year_of_birth = kwargs.get('year_of_birth'),
            #MODEL = kwargs.get('MODEL_NAME'),
        )
        account.set_password(password)
        account.save()

        return account

    def create_superuser(self, email, password, **kwargs):
        account = self.create_user(email, password, **kwargs)
        account.is_staff = True
        account.is_superuser = True
        account.save()

        return account

class Account(AbstractUser):
    email = models.EmailField(unique=True)
    #ADD YOUR MODELS HERE

    objects = AccountManager()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.email

Also, dont forget to register it on admin.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Account

admin.site.register(Account)