Publish Post After Click On A Link

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I have a frontend posting form (CF7), where user inputs (among other data of course) his email. Now I set the status to pending.

What I want is, that the user would get trough autoresponder a mail, in which would be the link for changing the status to PUBLISH when clicked on. Is there any solution for this? Autoresponder is not the problem, I do not know, how to set up this link.

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  1. When the post is created and set to pending, build a unique identifier for auto-publishing, for example:

    $unique = md5( $post->post_content );
add_post_meta( $post->ID, '_auto_publish', $unique );

    Now create a link for the email:

    $link = get_permalink( $post->ID );
$link = add_query_arg(
    array(
        'autopublish' => $unique,
        'pid'         => $post->ID
    ),
    $link
);

    Send this link in your email to the submitter’s address:

    print "<$link>";

    Then watch for the matching $_GET parameters when the recipient clicks the link:

    if ( isset ( $_GET[ 'autopublish' ] )
    and isset ( $_GET[ 'pid' ] )
    and is_numeric( $_GET[ 'pid' ] )
    and $post = get_post( $_GET[ 'pid' ] )
    and $_GET[ 'autopublish' ] === get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_auto_publish', TRUE )
    )
{
    $post->post_status = 'publish';
    wp_update_post( $post );
    delete_post_meta( $post->ID, '_auto_publish' );
}

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