Text to Slug Converter
Convert text to URL-friendly slugs
Text to Slug Converter
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How to Use
- Enter text to convert into a URL-friendly slug
- Choose separator character (hyphen, underscore, or dot)
- Toggle lowercase conversion on/off
- Copy the generated slug for use in URLs
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About Text to Slug Converter
Convert any text into SEO-friendly URL slugs instantly with our text to slug converter. URL slugs are clean, readable portions of URLs that describe page content, essential for search engine optimization, user experience, and maintaining organized website structures. Our tool transforms titles, headings, and any text into URL-safe slugs by converting to lowercase, replacing spaces with hyphens, removing special characters, handling international characters, and creating clean, SEO-optimized permalinks. Perfect for bloggers creating post URLs, developers building CMS systems, SEO professionals optimizing site structure, and content managers needing consistent URL formatting. The converter handles edge cases like multiple spaces, special characters, accented letters, and punctuation, ensuring your slugs are always URL-safe, readable, and SEO-friendly following best practices used by WordPress, Medium, and major platforms.
Key Features
SEO-Friendly Output
Creates slugs that follow SEO best practices: lowercase, hyphen-separated, without special characters. Optimized for search engine crawling and indexing.
International Character Support
Properly handles accented characters and international text. Converts 'café' to 'cafe', 'naïve' to 'naive', ensuring ASCII-safe URLs that work everywhere.
Smart Character Handling
Removes or converts special characters intelligently. Replaces & with 'and', removes quotes, handles apostrophes, and cleans up messy text.
Customizable Separator
Choose between hyphens (-) or underscores (_) as word separators. Supports both modern hyphen-based and legacy underscore-based slug formats.
Duplicate Prevention
Automatically removes consecutive hyphens and trims hyphens from start/end. Ensures clean slugs without double-dashes or trailing separators.
Max Length Control
Set maximum slug length for database constraints or aesthetic preferences. Truncates at word boundaries to maintain readability.
Real-Time Preview
See slug generation in real-time as you type. Instant feedback helps you craft perfect URLs before publishing content.
How to Use Text to Slug Converter
Type or paste your title, heading, or text in the input field
Type or paste your title, heading, or text in the input field. Follow the tool interface to complete this step.
View the automatically generated slug in real-time below
View the automatically generated slug in real-time below. Follow the tool interface to complete this step.
Adjust settings if needed (separator type, max length, character handling)
Adjust settings if needed (separator type, max length, character handling). Follow the tool interface to complete this step.
Review the slug to ensure it's descriptive and readable
Review the slug to ensure it's descriptive and readable. Follow the tool interface to complete this step.
Copy the generated slug to your clipboard with one click
Copy the generated slug to your clipboard with one click. Follow the tool interface to complete this step.
Paste the slug into your CMS, blog platform, or URL field
Paste the slug into your CMS, blog platform, or URL field. Follow the tool interface to complete this step.
For better SEO, keep slugs concise, descriptive, and keyword-rich
For better SEO, keep slugs concise, descriptive, and keyword-rich. Follow the tool interface to complete this step.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a URL slug?
A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable form. In 'example.com/blog/my-first-post', the slug is 'my-first-post'. Slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated, contain no spaces or special characters, and describe the page content for SEO and usability.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?
Use hyphens (-), not underscores (_). Google treats hyphens as word separators but treats underscores as word joiners. 'best-seo-practices' is seen as three words, while 'best_seo_practices' might be seen as one word. Hyphens are the modern standard and SEO best practice.
How long should a URL slug be?
Aim for 3-5 words or 30-50 characters. Slugs should be descriptive but concise. 'how-to-bake-chocolate-cake' is good. 'how-to-bake-the-most-delicious-chocolate-cake-you-have-ever-tasted' is too long. Shorter slugs are easier to remember, share, and look cleaner.
Can I change a URL slug after publishing?
Technically yes, but avoid it. Changing slugs breaks existing links, loses SEO ranking, and creates 404 errors. If you must change a slug, set up 301 redirects from the old URL to the new one. It's best to get slugs right before publishing.
Should slugs include stop words like 'a', 'the', 'of'?
For better SEO, you can remove stop words to make slugs more concise. However, if removing them makes the slug confusing, keep them. 'lord-of-the-rings' is better than 'lord-rings' even though 'of' and 'the' are stop words. Readability matters most.
How are accented characters handled in slugs?
Our tool converts accented characters to their ASCII equivalents: é→e, ñ→n, ü→u, etc. This ensures universal compatibility. Some systems can handle UTF-8 slugs, but ASCII slugs work everywhere without encoding issues.
What happens to numbers in text-to-slug conversion?
Numbers are preserved in slugs. '10-best-practices' keeps the '10'. Numbers are URL-safe and can provide context in URLs, especially for lists, dates, or version numbers. They're treated like regular word characters.
Can the same slug be used twice on one website?
Technically no - URLs must be unique. However, you can use the same slug in different sections if the full path differs. '/blog/introduction' and '/docs/introduction' have the same slug but different full URLs. Most CMS platforms enforce slug uniqueness within each content type.
Use Cases
- Blog and Content Publishing: Create SEO-friendly URLs for blog posts, articles, and pages. Convert post titles to clean slugs that improve search rankings and user readability. Essential for WordPress, Medium, and custom CMS platforms.
- E-Commerce Product URLs: Generate product page URLs from product names. Create consistent, SEO-optimized slugs for product catalogs, ensuring clean URLs that include relevant keywords for better search visibility.
- Documentation and Knowledge Bases: Create organized URL structures for documentation sites. Convert article titles and section names to slugs that form logical, hierarchical URL paths users can navigate intuitively.
- Category and Tag Management: Generate slugs for categories, tags, and taxonomies in content management systems. Maintain consistent naming conventions across your site's organizational structure.
- File Naming and Organization: Create consistent file names from document titles. Generate URL-safe names for uploads, downloads, and file systems where spaces and special characters cause problems.