Slug Generator
Convert a headline into something you can paste straight into a URL bar: lower case, no punctuation, no accents, words joined by hyphens.
How to use it
- Paste your title or phrase.
- Choose a separator and decide whether to drop common words such as "the" and "and".
- Copy the slug.
Why it stays private
Slugs are usually created while drafting content that has not been published yet. Titles of unpublished articles and unannounced products are exactly the sort of thing worth keeping off a third-party server.
Questions
What is a slug?
The readable part of a URL that identifies a page, such as speed-up-your-website in example.com/speed-up-your-website. Good slugs are short, lower case, and use hyphens rather than underscores.
Should I remove stop words?
It shortens the slug, which is usually good. But keep them when removing a word makes the URL hard to read — clarity beats brevity. If every word is a stop word, they are all kept, so you never end up with an empty slug.
What happens to accented characters?
They are decomposed and stripped, so café becomes cafe. That is the safest behaviour for URLs, though it does mean the accent is not preserved.