How to get current pages menu text?

Question

Is there an easy way of outputting the current pages menu text?

I am looking for something like

 <?php echo get_the_title(); ?> 

But for the current pages menu text.

Answer 1

You can get a Menu's entire item list with wp_get_nav_menu_items(). Then, loop through them all and test against the current post_id, and voila, you have all your data.

<?php
$menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items( 'main-menu' );
foreach( $menu_items as $item ) {
    print_r( $item ) ; // see what you can work with
    // carry on
}