Slug Generator
Turn any title or phrase into a clean URL slug: lowercase, accents stripped, words joined by hyphens. Updates as you type.
The URL-friendly slug appears as you type: lowercase, no accents, hyphens between words.
How it works
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page — the
10-tips-for-better-coffee in example.com/blog/10-tips-for-better-coffee. This generator
applies the standard normalization pipeline: convert to lowercase, strip accents and diacritics
(é → e, ñ → n), replace every run of non-alphanumeric characters with a single hyphen, and trim
hyphens from the ends.
The result is safe for URLs without percent-encoding, consistent across systems, and matches what CMSs like WordPress produce by default. The conversion happens live as you type, with a one-click copy button.
When to use
Creating URLs for blog posts, product pages, documentation, or news articles — anywhere you want readable, shareable, SEO-friendly links. Also useful for generating file names, CSS class names, HTML anchors and IDs from human titles, since the same character rules generally apply.
Search engines display slugs in results, and readable words in the URL help users (and crawlers) understand the page before clicking, so a clean slug is a small but real SEO signal.
Practical examples
Blog post title
"10 Tips for Better Coffee — At Home!" becomes 10-tips-for-better-coffee-at-home: the em
dash and exclamation mark disappear, and everything is lowercase and hyphenated.
Accented text
"Guia de São Paulo: cafés & padarias" becomes guia-de-sao-paulo-cafes-padarias — accents
are transliterated instead of percent-encoded, keeping the URL clean.
Common mistakes
Changing a published page's slug breaks every existing link to it. If you must rename, set up a 301 redirect from the old URL — otherwise you lose visitors and accumulated search ranking.
Another habit worth avoiding is stuffing the slug with every keyword imaginable. Slugs work best
short and descriptive (3–6 words); best-cheap-affordable-budget-coffee-maker-2026-review reads
as spam to both people and search engines.
Frequently asked questions
Should slugs use hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Google treats hyphens as word separators but treats underscores as word joiners, so hyphenated slugs are indexed word by word.
Do stop words like "the" and "a" hurt the slug?
No — they are fine to keep when they aid readability. Many sites remove them just to shorten the URL, which is also fine. Clarity beats rigid rules.
Is there a length limit for slugs?
Technically URLs can be very long, but practically keep slugs under ~60 characters: they display better in search results and are easier to share.
Why remove accents instead of encoding them?
Accented characters in URLs get percent-encoded (São → S%C3%A3o), which looks broken when shared. Transliterating to plain ASCII keeps links readable everywhere.