URL Slug Generator

How to use

1. Paste a title or sentence into the box - the slug updates as you type.
2. Choose a separator, optional word limit, and whether to keep numbers.
3. Copy the slug or view it as a complete URL.

Use cases

1. Use case: Create SEO-friendly URLs Convert an article title into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated slug for your blog post URL.

2. Use case: Standardize file names Generate consistent kebab-case names for project files, images and exports.

Practical tips

A slug is lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens — accents get transliterated, spaces become hyphens, and punctuation disappears. Keep slugs short but meaningful: three to five significant words beat both full headlines and keyword-less IDs. The most important rule is stability: once a URL is published, changing the slug breaks links and search rankings, so fix mistakes early and leave working slugs alone. Like every tool on this site, the Slug Generator runs entirely in your browser: the data you enter never leaves your device, nothing is uploaded to a server, and the tool keeps working if your connection drops.

Common mistakes

Slugs are small, and their mistakes are expensive:

• Changing slugs after publication — links break and rankings reset; fix mistakes early and leave working slugs alone.
• Keeping stop words ('a', 'the', 'of') that add length without meaning.
• Letting a CMS truncate mid-word, producing slugs that end in hyphens or partial words.
• Ignoring accented characters, which become percent-encoded clutter instead of clean transliterations.

What makes a slug survive the trip

A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies the page. It is not decoration: it is the string people see in search results, in shared links and in analytics reports, and it is the string a server has to match. The rules below are the ones that actually change behaviour.

• Lowercase, always. Servers can be case-sensitive even when your local machine is not, and mixed case invites duplicate URLs that point at the same page.
• Hyphens, not underscores. Search engines read a hyphen as a word separator and an underscore as a joiner, so url-slug-tool resolves as three words and url_slug_tool as one.
• Fold accents rather than dropping them. Converting café to cafe keeps the slug typeable and stable; percent-encoded characters are legal but unreadable when pasted into chat.
• Keep it short, and keep the numbers. Three to five words is the practical range. Years and versions (2026) are worth keeping because they distinguish near-identical titles.
• Decide once. Changing a published slug breaks every existing link and the page's accumulated signals, so a rename should be paired with a permanent redirect from the old address.

The generator above applies the mechanical parts of this — case folding, accent removal, separator replacement — and leaves the editorial decision, which words actually carry meaning, to you. Dropping filler words such as the, a and of usually shortens the slug without losing anything.

Frequently asked questions