URL Slug Generator

About this tool

A URL slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page — the 'how-to-write-better-blog-posts' in 'example.com/how-to-write-better-blog-posts'. Good slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated, free of special characters, and concise. Writing them manually from a title is straightforward for one post but becomes tedious and inconsistent across dozens. URL Slug Generator converts any title or phrase into a slug as you type: it lowercases the text, strips accents from letters such as é and ü, replaces every run of other characters (spaces, punctuation, symbols, non-Latin letters) with a single hyphen, and trims hyphens from the ends. A Preview URL shows the slug appended to this site's address, and both the slug and the URL have copy buttons. There are no options: stop words are kept and symbols like & are removed rather than spelled out. The result is a clean URL segment ready to paste into your CMS, routing configuration, or database record.

Why use it

• Instant SEO-Friendly Output: Produces lowercase, hyphenated slugs that match the URL format preferred by Google and all major CMS platforms.

• Accent & Special Character Handling: Strips accents from letters like é and ü and turns symbols and punctuation into hyphens, with no manual editing.

• Predictable Output: There are no settings to get wrong — the same title always produces the same slug.

• Consecutive Hyphen Collapse: Multiple separators are collapsed to a single hyphen so titles with punctuation produce clean slugs.

• Real-Time Preview: Slug updates as you edit the title, letting you iterate quickly across many post titles.

• Works for Any CMS or Framework: Output format is compatible with WordPress, Ghost, Hugo, Next.js, Django, and any URL routing system.

How to use

1. Paste or type your page title or phrase into the Input text box.
2. The slug appears instantly in the Slug field below.
3. Check the Preview URL to see the slug in a full address.
4. Remove words you do not want, such as 'the' or 'a', directly in the input.
5. Copy the slug or the preview URL with its copy button.
6. Adjust the title and the slug updates in real time for quick iteration.

When it helps

• When writing blog posts and needing to generate consistent URL slugs for each new article.
• When building a CMS or static site and needing to programmatically generate slugs from user-entered titles.
• When standardizing URL paths across a site migration where old slugs were inconsistently formatted.
• When creating product pages in an e-commerce platform where slug format affects crawlability.
• When generating anchor IDs for section headings in a documentation page.
• When creating Git branch names or GitHub issue labels from descriptive phrases.

Examples

Tips

• Keep slugs under 60 characters — shorter slugs are easier to share and less likely to be truncated in search results.
• Include your primary keyword early in the slug for maximum SEO benefit.
• Delete stop words from the input for most blog posts, but keep them for exact-match brand terms or proper nouns where they are meaningful.
• After generating a slug, verify it returns no 404 on your site — if a similar slug already exists, differentiate with a number or qualifier.
• For multilingual sites, generate separate slugs per language rather than translating the English slug literally.

Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary

URL Slug

The human-readable portion of a URL path that identifies a specific page, typically derived from the page title and formatted as lowercase-hyphenated text.

Stop words

Common short words (the, a, and, of, in) that carry little semantic value and are often stripped from slugs and search index tokens.

Transliteration

Converting characters from one script or encoding to another, such as converting accented Latin letters (é, ü) to their closest ASCII equivalents (e, u).

Permalink

A permanent URL for a specific piece of content. Slugs form the final segment of most blog and CMS permalinks.

Canonical URL

The preferred URL for a page when multiple URLs can display the same content. Slugs should be stable to avoid canonical duplication issues.

Kebab-case

A naming convention using lowercase words joined by hyphens. URL slugs are a specific application of kebab-case for web addresses.