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Slug Generator — turn titles into URL-friendly slugs

Runs 100% in your browser — nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored.

Convert a page title into a clean, lowercase, hyphenated slug and preview the URL. Updates as you type.

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Turn a title into a URL-friendly slug. Updates as you type.

What the slug generator does

Type a page title and get a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug safe to drop into a URL. It strips punctuation, replaces spaces with hyphens and trims leading or trailing dashes.

Frequently asked questions

Why lowercase and hyphenated?
That is the format search engines and most CMSes expect, and it avoids encoding problems in links.

Does it handle non-English text?
It keeps ASCII letters and digits and removes the rest, so accented characters are dropped. Add transliteration before slugging if you need them preserved.

Is anything uploaded?
No. The slug is built in the page.

How to use it

  1. Enter a page title in the text input field.
  2. Watch the preview update as you type to see the generated slug in real time.
  3. Review the lowercase, hyphen-separated result to confirm it matches your intended URL format.
  4. Copy the slug and paste it into your CMS, blog platform, or website configuration.

Where it comes in handy

When publishing a blog post with a title like “10 Best Running Shoes for Trail Blazers in 2024,” typing that into the generator produces a clean slug like 10-best-running-shoes-for-trail-blazers-in-2024 instead of a broken URL with spaces and special characters.

For an e-commerce product page with 200+ items, converting titles such as “Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones (Premium Edition)” into slugs saves time compared to manually typing each URL, reducing the risk of typos across a catalog.

Documentation sites with 50 or more articles benefit from consistent slug formatting. The tool ensures all titles follow the same lowercase-hyphen pattern, making navigation links and sitemap files uniform without manual cleanup.

Worth knowing

  • Non-ASCII characters such as é, ñ, or ü are removed entirely rather than converted to ASCII equivalents, so “Café Menu” becomes cafe-menu.
  • Multiple punctuation marks in a title create consecutive hyphens that the tool does not collapse, so “Hello!!! World” produces hello---world.
  • The output does not validate whether the resulting slug fits within URL length limits or conflicts with existing page slugs in your system.

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