Text to Slug

About the Text to Slug Generator

A slug is the human-readable, hyphen-separated version of a title that appears in a URL — for example top-10-summer-recipes instead of Top 10 Summer Recipes!. The Text to Slug Generator converts any sentence, headline, or product name into a clean URL slug that search engines understand, browsers display correctly, and content management systems accept without rewriting.

What the tool does in detail

It lowercases the text, transliterates accented and non-Latin characters to their ASCII equivalents (so “café” becomes cafe), strips punctuation and emoji, collapses runs of whitespace into single hyphens, removes leading and trailing dashes, and optionally truncates the result to a maximum length. The output is safe to use as a URL path segment, a filename, a database key, or an HTML id attribute.

How to use it

1. Paste your title, headline, or any text into the input area.
2. Choose a separator if you prefer underscores instead of hyphens.
3. Click Generate Slug and copy the result with one click.

Why slugs matter for SEO

Search engines weight URL keywords as a ranking signal, and human readers are more likely to click a link they can read at a glance. A descriptive slug also makes social shares look trustworthy, improves the experience for screen-reader users, and survives copy-and-paste between chat apps without breaking. WordPress, Ghost, Hugo, Jekyll, Shopify, and most modern CMS platforms expect this exact slug format for permalinks.

Bulk and multilingual support

You can paste a list of titles separated by line breaks and the tool generates one slug per line, which is ideal when migrating an entire blog or product catalogue. Non-Latin scripts including Arabic, Russian, Chinese, and Vietnamese are transliterated using a comprehensive lookup table so the resulting slug stays readable even after the original characters are stripped, while reserved words and stop words can be optionally removed for tighter, more SEO-focused URLs.

Tamer Baghdadi

CEO / Co-Founder