Link to Specific Bootstrap Tab From Another Page Wordpress - wordpress

Question

I'm using bootstrap tab shortcodes on my Wordpress site. I want to link from another page to tab2. Can anyone advise how this is done?
My page code (chopped a bit):
[bootstrap_tab name="TAB1" link="tab1-slug" active="active"]
TAB 1 Content
[/bootstrap_tab]
[bootstrap_tab name="TAB2" link="tab2-slug"]
More content
[/bootstrap_tab]
[bootstrap_tab name="TAB3" link="tab3-slug"]
Yep. Even more content.
[/bootstrap_tab]
[bootstrap_tab name="TAB4" link="tab4-slug"]
Yep. Even more content.
[/bootstrap_tab]
[end_bootstrap_tab]
The code it produces:
<ul id="tabs" class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs">
<li class="tabs active">
<a data-toggle="tab" href="#tab1-slug">TAB1</a>
</li>
<li class="tabs ">
<a data-toggle="tab" href="#tab2-slug">TAB2</a>
</li>
<li class="tabs ">
<a data-toggle="tab" href="#tab3-slug">TAB3</a>
</li>
<li class="tabs ">
<a data-toggle="tab" href="#tab4-slug">TAB4</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div id="my-tab-content" class="tab-content">
<div id="tab1-slug" class="tab-pane active">
<p></p>
<h2>header</h2>
<p><strong>bold</strong></p>
<p>content</p>
<p></p>
</div>
<div id="tab2-slug" class="tab-pane ">
<p></p>
<h2>TAB2</h2>
<p><strong>These are usually two day</strong></p>
</div>
<div id="tab3-slug" class="tab-pane ">
<p></p>
<h2>TAB3</h2>
<p>1 to 2 day events</p><p></p>
</div>
<div id="tab4-slug" class="tab-pane ">
<p>
<h2>TAB4</h2>
<p><strong>5 to 10 day courses</strong></p>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

Though not in WordPress, this seems to be the definitive solution to linking to Bootstrap tabs:
Twitter Bootstrap Tabs: Go to Specific Tab on Page Reload or Hyperlink
That being said, I wrote a WordPress plugin that will do this. Activate the plugin, then you'll be able to use the tab's href as the hash.
If your tab looks like this:
<li>Profile</li>
You can link to it and activate/open it using a link like this:
Link to my tab
The plugin will also allow you to link directly to content on the tabs, using a sort of a two-step link:
Step 1 Activate the proper tab
Step 2 Scroll to the content on the tab.
It does this using only a single hash in the URL.
For example: http://www.example.com/mypage/#content
This will take you to "mypage" and the HTML element with id="content", whether it's on an active/inactive Bootstrap tab or just on the page somewhere.
Hope this helps:
Here's the plugin on GitHub: https://github.com/marinersmuseum/WP-Tab-Anchors/blob/master/wp-tab-anchors.zip

Answer 2

Supposing that jQuery is being loaded and that the link URL is something like
http://example.com/page-with-tabs/?tab=NUMBER
We print some conditional script at the footer:
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'active_tab_so_19576232' );
function active_tab_so_19576232()
{
# Query var not set in URL, bail out
if( !isset( $_GET['tab'] ) )
return;
# Change the active tab
$tab = '#tab'. $_GET['tab'] .'-slug';
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('div.tab-pane.active').removeClass('active');
$('<?php echo $tab; ?>').addClass('active');
});
</script>
<?php
}
Should be a plugin, but you can drop the code in your theme functions.php.