Slug Generator
Paste a title, get a clean URL slug. Everything is lowercased, accents are folded to plain letters (crème brûlée → creme-brulee), punctuation disappears and spaces become single hyphens — the exact rules most CMS platforms use for pretty URLs.
Why slugs matter for SEO and sharing
A URL like /creme-brulee-recipe beats ?p=4821 on every channel: search engines read words, people remember words, and messengers won't wrap a short clean link across three lines. Words joined by hyphens are the standard — underscores look fine but are harder to read when links get underlined, and camelCase in URLs confuses more readers than it helps.
Non-ASCII letters have to be folded, not deleted: Über uns should become uber-uns, not ber-uns. The German ß maps to ss, and accented vowels lose their marks through proper Unicode normalization rather than a guesswork lookup table.
FAQ
- What happens to emojis and other symbols?
- Anything that isn't a letter or digit becomes a separator, so stray emoji, quotes and slashes just disappear without leaving double hyphens.
- How long should a slug be?
- Aim for 3–6 words. If the title is long, cut filler words (a, the, and) rather than keywords.
- Does it keep my text?
- No. Conversion happens as you type and nothing leaves your browser.