Django custom auth_user_model error

[Dave N]

I've been trying to customize a django auth_user_model, and it has led me to the latest error/issue, which can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37197771/django-attributeerror-usermanager-object-has-no-attribute-create-superuser

Please help get me out of Django config hell, so I can continue coding my project..

[JJ Williamson]

I'm still a bit of a noob but I say you go back to default settings and create another model which has a OnetoOne relationship with the User model that way you can add additional fields about a user account & etc and not break things on the backend. 

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class Member(models.Model):

user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

firstname = models.CharField(max_length=32,default="",verbose_name="First name")