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Allow End User To Add To Model, Form, and Template Django

Is there anything that someone could point me towards (a package, an example, a strategy, etc) of how I could implement the ability for an end user of my app to create a new field in a model, then add that model field to a model form and template? I’m thinking of the way that Salesforce allows users to add Custom fields.
I don’t really have any start point here I am only looking to learn if/how this might be possible in Django.
Thanks!

I'm also looking for same type of solution. But with some research, I came to know that we have this using ContentTypes framework.
How to do it? We can utilize ContentType's GenericForeignKeys and GenericRelations.

developing a django cms

first of all i'd like to apologize if my problem seems to broad to answer but i'm really getting frustrated over this. so i'm a wordpress developer mainly (used to be a front end developer) and i'm getting into python django. but after taking many courses i can't seem to understand how to do the content management aspect of my project. so here is a rundown of my problem
in wordpress there is this concept of custom post meta where you can put fields that can change the heading of pages and fully customize the website so that the client won't need me every time he needs to change anything (CMS basically)
now i can't even begin to imagine how to go about doing something like that for django
i've tried putting a custom form on top of my list view in the admin page but that doesn't look so good and what if i need to customize a page that doesn't belong to a module with a list view
i've tried to make an app and call it page but then what about the stuff that is directly related to a module.
so my question is: how should i think about this since i don't want to go a long way in one direction just to discover that that is a poor way of doing things
also as a side note the site i'm creating is not that much bigger than a blog which i know i'd be better off doing in wordpress anyway but i thought it would be a good starting point to familiarize my self with django.
finally if you'd recommend any courses or maybe a tutorial i'd be more than grateful.

You're right, that is a very broad question. Here is a broad answer that I hope will help.
Django is a programming "framework" that can be used to develop new web-apps, including new CMS's. In my experience, the customizability of web-page titles in a new Django-app would involve using Django's html template language with template-tags and context-variables etc, as well as Python programming within the Django framework. For doing content management, you would basically have to program your own models & functions for that, along with whatever default or other database system (MySQL, PostgreSQL) you choose to install... There is a learning curve, but Python and Django are considered by some to be among the easiest language+frameworks to learn.
This tutorial playlist may help you. It helped me muddle thru Django in the beginning, and he has Python tutorials also.

Using Django admin as a base for backend

First sorry for my poor English.
I came from asp.net mvc. Now I use django with nanoboxio
In asp, I can create sections like below.
Create model and add it to dbcontext
Right click controller folder and create new controller with views.
Modify as you wish
For now, I know Django can create admin interface for your model. I try and happy with it. but i want to develop it.
I want to for example;
Create a post model.
Create a admin interface for it.
Copy generated admin interface controller and views to another app
Modify it
How can I do that?

Django's MVC is quite different to ASP.
Django's MVC pattern is less strict so you sort of combine the view and the controller in the views.py. However, if you want to change the Admin, the Django docs are quite nice here: docs.djangoproject.com
If you want to create a custom admin functionality the docs should give you a first idea and if you're planning to create a blog, I would advice you to use an existing plugin such as Zinnia. There, you can find the desired functionalities and modify them instead of building them from scratch.
Also, there are a couple of tutorials on how to build reusable apps and they usually include a detailed guideline how to implement admin functionalities there. Just look it up on google.
I hope that helps you!

Create an estimator tool in Django Python

I am new to Django. I have read the official documentations and managed to create models in Django. I have a task to create an estimator tool that could provide the estimate(cost) to the user when he selects the hardware/softwares etc. This could be something similar to this http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html. This is only for reference but I want to add details dynamically.
Basically I am curious to know about:
How to add rows in Django?
How is the 'Monthly cost' working in amazon calculator?
I want to achieve something similar to this dynamic estimations.
Any pointers/articles/suggestions will be helpful in my learning and analysis.

You have to override the Django admin template for that.
How to add button next to Add User button in Django Admin Site
for auto-selecting the group value you can use
https://github.com/crucialfelix/django-ajax-selects

Including CAPTCHA on user registration page with Django

I am a Django newbie. I created an app which has a user login/registration page. Now I want to include CAPTCHA also in the registration page. Can somebody guide me how to implement this in Django as i am quite new to it. On googling I found there are many modules which do the function out of the box. If this is the way to go, then which application is a better choice? Also I found most of them were explained on the basis of using Django Forms. But I used simple HTML forms instead of Django forms. Any help would be appreciated.

Your question about which 3rd party solution is "better" is subjective, and stackoverflow doesn't generally like to answer subjective questions. Take some time and evaluate each in light of your needs.
You often don't need a fancy image captcha. Even a simple question like "what color is an orange?" will stop most spam bots. I posed a simple question on my registration form, asking the user to type the domain name of the site. Simple but very effective. You can also include an input box on the form, and hide it with CSS (display: none). If this input comes back to you filled out, chances are good a bot is trying to register.
It doesn't really matter that these 3rd party solutions are using Django forms, and you are using "simple HTML". In your registration view, you simply process request.POST. It doesn't matter how the form was generated.

I go for Google's reCAPTCHA, and its easy to integrate.
Here is a tutorial I wrote for integrating Google's reCAPTCHA in forms. Hope it helps.

You could write one yourself if you liked. All you are essentially doing is generating a number/word in your view, embedding it in the template in some robot-unfriendly way (an image for example) and then validating it when the form is posted back.
You can still use django-simple-captcha if you are using html forms instead of django forms.
Similar question: Easy-to-use django captcha or registration app with captcha?
Try: http://code.google.com/p/django-simple-captcha/

I followed the instructions at http://www.marcofucci.com/tumblelog/26/jul/2009/integrating-recaptcha-with-django/ to create a custom reCAPTCHA widget and field using the python client. You can then add it to your form with:
recaptcha = ReCaptchaField()