Slug Generator

A slug is the human-readable tail of a URL — the part after the last slash that tells both people and search engines what the page is about. Turning "10 Recipes You'll LOVE (2026 Edition!)" into 10-recipes-youll-love-2026-edition involves a handful of fiddly rules: strip punctuation, convert accents, collapse spaces into single hyphens, lowercase everything. This tool applies all of them instantly as you type.

The transformation follows the conventions URLs actually expect. Accented characters are converted to their plain ASCII equivalents (é becomes e), so international titles produce portable slugs. Apostrophes and other punctuation are removed rather than replaced, keeping contractions readable (you'll becomes youll). Runs of spaces become single hyphens — the separator Google documents as a word boundary, unlike underscores — and consecutive hyphens are collapsed so you never get -- in a URL. A single toggle controls lowercasing, which is on by default because mixed-case URLs create accidental duplicate addresses.

The result is copy-ready for WordPress permalinks, Next.js routes, Shopify handles, documentation paths, or any CMS slug field. Everything runs in your browser with nothing uploaded, and for the rest of a page's metadata the Meta Tag Generator and SERP Snippet Preview pick up where the URL leaves off.

The conversion is a short pipeline applied to your text on every change:

1. The text is Unicode-normalized into decomposed form, which separates accented letters into a base letter plus a combining mark — then the marks are stripped, leaving plain ASCII (é → e, ü → u).
2. Every character that is not a letter, digit, space, or hyphen is removed. This is where apostrophes, quotes, brackets, and symbols disappear.
3. Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed, runs of spaces become single hyphens, and runs of hyphens are collapsed to one.
4. If the Lowercase toggle is on (the default), the result is lowercased.

The pipeline is deterministic — the same title always produces the same slug — which matters when different team members generate URLs for the same content.

Transliteration covers accented Latin characters only — non-Latin scripts are stripped rather than romanized, so titles in Cyrillic, Arabic, or CJK need a manually written slug. There is no stop-word removal: the, and, and of pass straight through, so trim filler words from the input yourself if you want a keyword-dense slug. Punctuation is deleted rather than hyphenated, which can merge symbol-joined words. The tool converts text; it does not check whether the slug is unique on your site or set up redirects for changed URLs.

The slug is computed in a memoized client-side function: NFKD Unicode normalization followed by removal of combining diacritical marks handles accent conversion; a character whitelist regex (letters, digits, whitespace, hyphens) strips punctuation; whitespace runs are replaced with single hyphens and hyphen runs collapsed; lowercasing is applied last when enabled. No network requests are made, and the same input always yields the same output.

Bloggers and content editors setting permalinks, developers naming routes and files in kebab-case, shop owners creating product handles, and SEO practitioners cleaning up messy inherited URLs. Anyone who publishes with a CMS touches slugs; this makes each one a two-second task instead of a manual find-and-replace exercise.