django foreignkey(user) in models

Question

I read the docs and this post... Django - Foreign Key to User model

I followed what it said and I still cannot get it to work. When I try to run the migrations I get

Answer 1

I do not know the "settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL" approach but a well-known approach and commonly used is the "Auth.User" model. Something like this on your end.

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class BlogPost(models.Model):
    '''a model for a blog post'''

    author = models.ForeignKey(User)
    date = models.DateField()
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    post = models.TextField()