Ideally, every time a user model instance is created, a corresponding user profile instance must be created as well. This is usually done using signals.
For example, we can listen for the post_save signal from the user model using the following signal handler in profiles/signals.py:
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.conf import settings
from . import models
@receiver(post_save, sender=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
def create_profile_handler(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if not created:
return
# Create the profile object, only if it is newly created
profile = models.Profile(user=instance)
profile.save()
The profile model has passed no additional initial parameters except ...
