Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, URL-friendly slug.
Turn any title into a clean, URL-friendly slug — lowercase, hyphenated and stripped of punctuation. Accents and Turkish characters are folded to plain letters (café → cafe). Ideal for blog posts, product pages and SEO-friendly links.
Formula / method
Examples
my-awesome-blog-post-2026
cafe-creme
What a URL slug is
A slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a page, such as 'how-to-brew-coffee' in a blog URL. This tool turns any title into a clean slug by lowercasing the text, replacing spaces with hyphens, and stripping punctuation and other characters that do not belong in a tidy URL.
Short, descriptive slugs help both readers and search engines understand what a page is about before they click.
Good slug practice
Keep slugs concise and keyword-focused; drop filler words like 'the' and 'a' where they add nothing. Use hyphens rather than underscores or spaces, since search engines treat hyphens as word separators. Avoid accented or non-ASCII characters, which can be percent-encoded into unreadable strings.
If you do need to encode special characters for a query string instead of a path, the URL Encoder is the right tool for that job.
Where it's used
- Creating clean URLs for blog posts and articles from their titles
- Generating product-page and category permalinks for an online store
- Making readable anchor or section IDs from headings
- Producing consistent file and folder names from titles
- Building SEO-friendly links inside a CMS such as WordPress
Real-world examples
- 'My Awesome Blog Post! 2026' becomes my-awesome-blog-post-2026, ready to paste as a permalink.
- A product titled 'Cafe Creme 250g' becomes cafe-creme-250g, folding the accent and dropping the symbol.
- A heading 'Top 10 Tips & Tricks' turns into top-10-tips-tricks.
A bit of history
The word slug comes from hot-metal printing: a full line of type cast as a single piece of molten metal on a Linotype machine was called a slug. Newspaper editors reused it as the short working name for a story, and web developers later borrowed it for the readable part of a URL.
Did you know?
Google treats a hyphen as a word separator but an underscore as a joiner, which is why clean-code reads as two words to search engines while clean_code reads as one.
FAQ
What is a slug?
A slug is the readable, URL-friendly part of a web address — usually lowercase words separated by hyphens, with punctuation removed.