I password protected my website root directory via cpanel directory privacy to help “hide” a site I’m developing and installed WP Cron HTTP Auth plugin to still allow cron jobs to run. Recently I removed the directory protection and deactivated the WP Cron HTTP Auth plugin. I checked the cron events via WP Crontrol plugin and no cron jobs have run since the HTTP Auth removal. They have all missed their schedules.
I tried clearing the pending cron jobs. They repopulate but still none will execute. I also checked the htaccess file for http auth remnants and tried adding the following to the wp-config file.
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);