How to restore the user's access level to administrator in Wordpress?
How to restore ( reset ) permissions ( level ) to administrator user wordpress?
Accidentally changed the user access level to normal and lost access to the site admin?
There is a simple and quick solution to this problem.
1. Go to phpmyadmin and find ID of your admin user in wp_users table
2. Search in table wp_usermeta with condition user_id = ID from first step and with meta_key = wp_capabilities
3. Change meta_value of this row to this one:
a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}