URL Slug Generator
URL Slug Generator
Turn a page title into a clean, search-friendly URL slug.
A URL Slug Generator converts a human title into the short, tidy ending of a web address, the part after the final slash. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens instead of spaces, drop punctuation, and keep only the words that tell a reader and a search engine what the page is about. A title like Ten Best Tips for Café Owners becomes ten-best-tips-for-cafe-owners, which is easy to read aloud over the phone, safe to paste into messages, and unlikely to break when shared between different systems and social platforms.
This generator handles the fiddly details for you. Accented letters are transliterated to their plain forms, so café becomes cafe rather than producing strange codes in the address. Symbols are removed, capitals are lowered, and you can choose an underscore separator if your platform prefers it, strip common stop words such as the, and, and of for a shorter slug, and set a maximum length that trims cleanly at a word boundary instead of cutting a word in half. The result updates as you type, so you can experiment with the options and watch the slug settle into its cleanest form before copying it.
How to use
- Type or paste your page title, headline, or product name into the box.
- Choose a hyphen or underscore as the word separator.
- Tick Remove stop words if you want the shortest possible slug.
- Set a maximum length if your platform or style guide limits URL size.
- Copy the finished slug and use it as the custom permalink for your page or post.
Frequently asked questions
Should I remove stop words or keep them?
Short slugs are easier to share, and removing words like the and of rarely hurts understanding. Keep them when they are part of a famous title, a question headline, or a phrase that would read oddly without them. Either way, decide once for your whole site and stay consistent, because mixed styles look untidy in listings.
Why hyphens instead of underscores?
Search engines have long treated hyphens as word separators in URLs, while underscores can be read as joining words together. Most content platforms, including Blogger and WordPress, default to hyphens for that reason. Use underscores only when a specific system you must match already does, such as certain file-naming conventions.
Do accented letters really break URLs?
Browsers convert them into percent-coded sequences that look messy, get mangled in some apps, and are hard to type. Transliterating é to e, ü to u, and similar letters keeps the address clean and typeable everywhere. Readers still understand the word, and the page title itself keeps its correct spelling and accents.
Should I change the slug of a page that is already published?
Be careful. Changing a live slug changes the address, so old links, bookmarks, and search listings pointing to it will break unless you set up a redirect. Generate the best slug before publishing.