Ordering users by date created in django admin panel

Question

How do you order users in the django admin panel so that upon display they are ordered by date created? Currently they are listed in alphabetical order

I know that I can import the User model via: from django.contrib.auth.models import User

How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

To change the default ordering of users in admin panel you can subclass the default UserAdmin class. In your applications's admin.py :

from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class MyUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    # override the default sort column
    ordering = ('date_joined', )
    # if you want the date they joined or other columns displayed in the list,
    # override list_display too
    list_display = ('username', 'email', 'date_joined', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'is_staff')

# finally replace the default UserAdmin with yours
admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, MyUserAdmin)

For more information refer to the documentation .

Answer 2

The admin site will default to the ordering specified on your model itself, eg

class MyUserModel:
    created = models.DateTimeField()

    class Meta:
        ordering = ('created', )

If you want something more flexible, that is, if you want to use Django default user model without subclassing it , take a look at https://docs.djangoproject.com/ja/1.9/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_display

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Edit: While what I say is not wholly incorrect, @rafalmp's answer is the right one.