Slug Generator
Slug Generator converts a title or phrase into a clean URL slug — lowercase, hyphen-separated and free of accents and special characters. Good slugs make URLs readable for humans and search engines alike.
Paste a headline and get a ready-to-use permalink in an instant, with a configurable separator, optional stop-word removal, a maximum-length cap, and batch mode that turns each line into its own slug.
How to use Slug Generator
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Enter one or more titles
Type or paste a title. Put each title on its own line to generate several slugs at once.
- 2
Tune the options
Pick a separator, toggle lowercasing, optionally strip stop words like “a” and “the”, and set a maximum length if your platform caps slugs.
- 3
Copy your slug
Copy the generated slug (or slugs) straight into your CMS or routing configuration.
What makes a good URL slug
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a page in readable words, for example "learn-javascript" in /blog/learn-javascript. Good slugs are short, lowercase, descriptive and use hyphens between words.
Search engines treat hyphens as word separators, so a clear slug can reinforce your target keyword. Avoid stop words and dates where possible to keep URLs evergreen.
How the slug is built
The tool lowercases your text, removes accents (so "Café" becomes "cafe"), strips punctuation and symbols, and replaces runs of non-alphanumeric characters with your chosen separator. Leading and trailing separators are trimmed automatically.
The result is a safe, canonical slug that works across web servers, content management systems and static site generators.
Frequently asked questions
- Does it remove accents and special characters?
- Yes. Accented letters are normalized to their basic Latin equivalents and any character that is not a letter or number is replaced by the separator.
- Can I use underscores instead of hyphens?
- Yes. Change the separator field to an underscore, or any single character you prefer.
- Can I generate many slugs at once?
- Yes. Put each title on its own line and the tool returns one slug per line, ready to copy as a batch.
- What do the stop-word and max-length options do?
- Removing stop words drops common filler like “a”, “the” and “of” for shorter, keyword-focused slugs. Max length caps the slug, trimming back to the last whole word so it never ends mid-word.
- Are slugs good for SEO?
- Descriptive, keyword-relevant slugs help both users and search engines understand a page before they open it, which can support click-through and ranking.
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