from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser class User(AbstractUser): institution = models.CharField(max_length=128, null=True, blank=True) role = models.CharField(max_length=128, null=True, blank=True) twitter = models.CharField(max_length=128, null=True, blank=True) facebook = models.CharField(max_length=128, null=True, blank=True) google_talk = models.EmailField(null=True, blank=True) webpage = models.CharField(max_length=256, null=True, blank=True) verification_hash = models.CharField(max_length=32, null=True, blank=True) # We need to have `email` field set as unique but Django does not # support field overriding (at least not until 1.6). # The following workaroud allows to change email field to unique # without having to rewrite all AbstractUser here User._meta.get_field('email')._unique = True