Hello, I’m relatively new to Django. I’ve been working through Django for Professionals by William Vincent and using the Django docs. I’m trying to create a custom user class and use the Django admin site page to add a custom user. When I go to the admin site and try to add a new user I get the …

Does this similar question help you? when I add new user from admin panel this error HELP!

FieldError - Unknown field(s) (usable_password) specified for CustomUser

wsvincent February 22, 2025, 5:41pm 4

I think the issue is related to AdminUserCreationForm, which was added in 5.1. If you see the updated tutorial below, it shows how to fix this issue.

Now I have to go update my books/courses on this too

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