How do I extend UserCreationForm to include email field

You are importing the wrong UserCreationForm in views.py. You should import your own form not the Django's one:

stories/views.py

from stories.forms import UserCreationForm
...

Besides that, you don't have to wrap all your fields with <p></p> individually as there exists form.as_p() for this job.

register.html

<form action = "/register/" method = "POST">{% csrf_token %}
    {{ form.as_p }}
</form>

Hope this helps.


I'm new with django and I tried what you posted and I had to changed to work ... Here's what I did.

forms.py

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User


class UserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True, label='Email')

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ("username", "email", "password1", "password2")

    def save(self, commit=True):
        user = super(UserCreationForm, self).save(commit=False)
        user.email = self.cleaned_data["email"]
        if commit:
            user.save()
        return user

views.py

from .forms import UserCreationForm
from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from django.views import generic


class SignUp(generic.CreateView):
    form_class = UserCreationForm
    success_url = reverse_lazy('login')
    template_name = 'accounts/signup.html'

signup.html

{% extends 'polls/base.html' %}
{% load bootstrap4 %}
{% load static %}
{% block content %}
<body class="body_login">
  <form method="post" class="form-signup">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% bootstrap_form form  %}
    <button type="submit" class="save btn btn-dark">Sign up</button>
  </form>
</body>
{% endblock %}

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