How do I inline edit a django user profile in the admin interface?

Question

If you want to store extra information about a user (django.contrib.auth.models.User) in Django you can use the nifty AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE to plug in a "profile" model. Each user then gets a profile. It's all described here:

• http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users
• http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter12/#cn222

Now, let's say I have created an application called accounts with a model called UserProfile and registered it as the profile model for my users. How do I inline the editing of the profile in the admin interface for editing users (or vice versa)?

Answer 1

Well, it turns out that this is quite easy, once you know how to do it. This is my myapp/accounts/admin.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from myapp.accounts.models import UserProfile
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UserProfileInline(admin.StackedInline):
    model = UserProfile
    max_num = 1
    can_delete = False

class AccountsUserAdmin(admin.UserAdmin):
    inlines = [UserProfileInline]

# unregister old user admin
admin.site.unregister(User)
# register new user admin that includes a UserProfile
admin.site.register(User, AccountsUserAdmin)

The default admin.UserAdmin ModelAdmin class for users is unregistered and a new one specifying an inline UserProfile is registered in its place. Just thought I should share.