URL Slug Generator
SEO-friendly URL slugs.
SEO-friendly URL slugs.
How to use URL Slug Generator
- Type any title, heading, or phrase into the field
- Choose a hyphen or underscore separator and toggle lowercasing
- Copy the clean URL-safe slug it builds as you type
About URL Slug Generator
The URL Slug Generator turns any title, heading, or phrase into a clean, URL-safe slug as you type. It lowercases the text, strips accents and diacritics so é becomes e, swaps spaces and underscores for your chosen separator, removes stray symbols and punctuation, collapses repeated separators, and trims them off the ends. You can pick a hyphen or an underscore and toggle lowercasing on or off, so the output fits whatever system you are pasting it into.
That makes it a quick way to slugify a blog title, product name, filename, or ID without writing any code. If you would normally reach for a PHP or JavaScript slugify function, this does the same job in the browser and hands you the finished string to copy. Paste the slug straight into a WordPress permalink, a Laravel route, a Contentful entry, or any other CMS field that expects a lowercase, hyphenated value.
It is completely free with no sign-up and no usage limits, and it runs entirely in your browser. Your text is never uploaded to a server, so you can generate slugs for private drafts, unpublished pages, or internal filenames with confidence, then copy the result in one click.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a URL slug?
- A slug is the human-readable part of a web address that identifies a page, like the "hello-world" in example.com/hello-world. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words, and avoid spaces or special characters so they stay clean, shareable, and SEO-friendly.
- What does it mean to slugify a title?
- Slugifying means converting a normal title or sentence into a slug: lowercasing it, replacing spaces with a separator, and stripping out anything that is not safe in a URL. This tool slugifies as you type, so you paste in a headline and get the finished slug instantly.
- Is this slug generator free?
- Yes, it is 100% free with no account, sign-up, or usage limits. Generate as many slugs as you want.
- Is my data uploaded or stored anywhere?
- No. Everything happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never sent to a server, logged, or stored, so it is safe for private or sensitive content.
- Do I need to write PHP or JavaScript to create a slug?
- No. Instead of building a slugify function in PHP, JavaScript, or another language, you can paste your text here and copy the result. It is handy for one-off slugs or when you just want to check what a title will look like as a URL.
- Can I use this for WordPress post slugs and permalinks?
- Yes. Type your post title, copy the generated slug, and paste it into the WordPress permalink or slug field. The lowercase, hyphenated output matches what WordPress expects, so you control the URL instead of letting it auto-generate.
- Does it work for Laravel or Contentful slugs?
- Yes. The output is a plain, lowercase, hyphen-separated string, which is exactly the format a Laravel route slug or a Contentful entry slug field needs. Generate it here and drop it into whichever CMS or framework you are using.
- Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?
- Hyphens are the standard recommendation for SEO because search engines treat them as word separators, while underscores can join words together. This tool defaults to hyphens but lets you switch to underscores when a system requires them.
- How does it handle accents and special characters?
- Accented letters are normalized and stripped to their plain forms (for example, é becomes e), and any remaining symbols or punctuation are removed. Spaces and underscores become your chosen separator, and repeated or trailing separators are cleaned up automatically.
- Can I keep uppercase letters in my slug?
- Yes. Lowercasing is on by default because most URLs are case-insensitive and lowercase is cleaner, but you can turn the Lowercase option off to preserve the original capitalization.