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URL Slug Generator: Turn Any Title into a Slug

Turn any title into a clean, URL-safe slug.

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About the Text to Slug Converter

A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page, like the final segment of a blog post address. Text to Slug Converter takes an ordinary title and produces that segment for you: it lowercases the text, swaps spaces for hyphens, removes punctuation and symbols that do not belong in a URL, collapses repeated hyphens and trims any hyphen left at the start or end.

For example, the title Best Free Online Tools 2026! becomes best-free-online-tools-2026. Accented letters are transliterated to their closest plain equivalents, so Cafe de Flore becomes cafe-de-flore rather than breaking into percent-encoded characters.

Clean slugs matter because they appear in search results, in shared links and in analytics reports. A slug made of readable words is easier to scan, easier to type and less likely to be mangled when it is pasted into a chat app or a printed document.

How to use the Text to Slug Converter

  1. Enter a titlePaste or type the headline, product name or page title you want to publish.
  2. Set your optionsChoose the separator and decide whether common stop words should be dropped to keep the slug short.
  3. Read the slugThe converted slug appears instantly as you type.
  4. Copy it into your CMSUse the copy button and paste the slug into the permalink field of WordPress, Shopify or whatever platform you publish with.

Features

  • Live conversion as you type
  • Lowercases everything and replaces spaces with a separator
  • Removes punctuation, symbols and emoji
  • Transliterates accented characters to plain ASCII
  • Collapses repeated separators and trims the ends
  • Optional hyphen or underscore separator
  • Optional stop-word removal for shorter slugs

Who uses this tool

The text to slug converter is used by writers, developers, students, marketers and anyone else who needs the job done once without installing software. Common cases include:

  • Creating permalinks for blog posts and landing pages
  • Generating product handles for an online store
  • Naming files and folders without spaces
  • Building anchor IDs for in-page links
  • Normalising imported titles before a bulk upload

Frequently asked questions

Should I remove stop words from my slugs?

It is optional. Dropping words such as the, and and of makes slugs shorter and tidier, which helps readability in search results. Keep them if removing them would make the slug confusing or change its meaning.

What happens to accented or non-Latin characters?

Accented Latin letters are converted to their closest plain equivalent, so a becomes a and o becomes o. Characters from scripts with no ASCII equivalent are removed, so a title written entirely in such a script will need a transliterated version typed in by hand.

Can a slug contain numbers?

Yes. Digits are kept exactly as typed, which is useful for years, model numbers and version labels.

Hyphen or underscore, which should I use?

Hyphens are the usual choice for web URLs and are the default here. Underscores are more common in file names and in some code conventions. Both are offered so you can match whatever system you are feeding.

Does changing a published slug hurt my site?

Changing a live URL breaks existing links unless you add a redirect from the old address to the new one. Decide on a slug before publishing where you can, and set up a redirect when you do have to change one.

How long should a slug be?

Short enough to read at a glance and long enough to describe the page. Three to six meaningful words is a practical range for most articles.

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