Slug Generator

What the Slug Generator does

The Slug Generator converts any title or piece of text into a clean, URL-safe slug — lowercased, spaces replaced with hyphens, and special characters stripped out — the format search engines and CMS platforms expect for readable page URLs.

How to use it

1. Type or paste your title or text into the box.
2. The URL-safe slug appears automatically.
3. Click Copy slug to copy it.

Common uses

• Generating a clean URL slug from a blog post or article title.
• Creating a consistent slug format for product pages in an online store.
• Converting a category or tag name into a URL-friendly path segment.
• Checking that a manually written slug matches standard SEO-friendly conventions.
• Preparing filenames or identifiers that need to be free of spaces and special characters.

Good to know

Good slugs are short, lowercase, hyphen-separated, and free of stop words where possible — search engines generally treat hyphens as word separators but ignore underscores, which is why hyphens are the standard convention over underscores for SEO-friendly URLs.

The term "slug" in web development comes from newspaper publishing, where it originally referred to a short, working title editors used internally to identify a story before it ran — the web borrowed the term for the short, URL-friendly identifier that appears in a page's address, and the same design goal carries over: something brief, descriptive, and easy to reference at a glance.