Text to Slug
A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a page — the 'text-to-slug-converter' at the end of an address. Good slugs are lowercase, use hyphens between words, and avoid spaces, punctuation and accented characters that get percent-encoded into noise.
Paste a headline and this tool produces the slug form of it, so your URLs stay clean and predictable.
Runs in your browser. Text to Slug processes your input on your own device. Nothing you enter or upload is sent to a server.
How to use the Text to Slug
- Paste the title or phrase you want to convert.
- Let it be normalised into slug form.
- Copy the slug into your CMS or router.
Frequently asked questions
Why use hyphens rather than underscores?
Hyphens are the long-standing convention for separating words in URLs and are treated as word separators by search engines. Underscores are more commonly read as joining characters.
What happens to accented characters?
They are reduced to their closest plain ASCII equivalent, so 'café' becomes 'cafe'. This avoids URLs that get percent-encoded into something unreadable.
Should I change a slug after publishing?
Only if you have to. Changing a live URL breaks existing links and loses accumulated search signals. If you must change it, put a permanent redirect from the old slug to the new one.