How to add a field to the Django Admin Add User form using UserCreationForm. Add this to a admin.py and alter to whatever fields you'd like

adding-to-user-admin-form.py

# How to add a field to the Django Admin Add User form 
# using UserCreationForm. Add this to a admin.py and alter 
# to whatever fields you'd like

from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from django import forms
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django.contrib import admin

class UserCreationFormExtended(UserCreationForm): 
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): 
        super(UserCreationFormExtended, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) 
        self.fields['email'] = forms.EmailField(label=_("E-mail"), max_length=75)

UserAdmin.add_form = UserCreationFormExtended
UserAdmin.add_fieldsets = (
    (None, {
        'classes': ('wide',),
        'fields': ('email', 'username', 'password1', 'password2',)
    }),
)

admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)

Hey Riklomas how can you see the UserAdmin on your current project admin since the UserAdmin belongs to auth application?

@julianmoji this snippet is from 2009(!) so not sure how valid it is any more!

@riklomas I noticed it Haha so sorry I did not see the date thanks anyway

for an updated version : https://gist.github.com/fchabouis/8f92abc043ca450120d7bcfa50b34bdc