In Django when extending AbstractUser, how do you reorder admin fields?

Question

In a Django app I have a class that extends AbstractUser:

class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
    uid = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4, editable=False)
    ...more fields that are not in the parent...

When I look at the /admin/ I see that the parent fields are on top, and it looks really bad, with the password being the first field. How do I put the child fields on top?

Answer 1

You can sort the fields by overriding UserAdmin:

from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin

@admin.register(User)
class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    fieldsets = (
        (
            ('Personal information'),
            {'fields': ('first_name', 'last_name', 'email')}
        )
    )

The above code will create a section called Personal information which will have the fields first_name, last_name and email.