Slug generator
Titles in, URLs out.
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Output
Paste or type above to see the result here.
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This tool runs entirely in your browser. What you paste is processed on your device and is never sent to a server, so it is safe to use with tokens, keys and unpublished text.
Example
Example: five blog post titles turned into URL slugs, accents and a repeat included
A food blog moving to a new site needs a URL for each post. The titles are pasted one per line, with the settings as the page opens: Hyphen, All lower case on, letters outside the Latin alphabet not kept, Longest: No limit. The Crème Brûlée title is in the list twice.
- Accents are folded to the letter underneath: Crème Brûlée becomes creme-brulee. Danish and German letters take their usual spellings: Smørrebrød becomes smoerrebroed, Glühwein gluehwein.
- Anything that is not a letter or a digit is dropped and the gap becomes one hyphen: the ampersand, the brackets, the colon, the full stop, the question mark and the £ sign.
- The repeated title gets -2 at the end, so the two posts cannot end up at the same URL.
- With Longest set to 40 characters, each slug is cut back to the last hyphen before the limit, never in the middle of a word.
| Title | Slug | Longest: 40 characters |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Best Fish & Chip Shops in Cornwall (2026 Guide) | 10-best-fish-chip-shops-in-cornwall-2026-guide | 10-best-fish-chip-shops-in-cornwall |
| Crème Brûlée vs. Panna Cotta: Which Is Easier? | creme-brulee-vs-panna-cotta-which-is-easier | creme-brulee-vs-panna-cotta-which-is |
| Smørrebrød and Glühwein: A Nordic Christmas Menu | smoerrebroed-and-gluehwein-a-nordic-christmas-menu | smoerrebroed-and-gluehwein-a-nordic |
| £5 Lunches That Taste Expensive | 5-lunches-that-taste-expensive | 5-lunches-that-taste-expensive |
| Crème Brûlée vs. Panna Cotta: Which Is Easier? (again) | creme-brulee-vs-panna-cotta-which-is-easier-2 | creme-brulee-vs-panna-cotta-which-is-2 |
Five slugs and five different URLs, counted as 5 slugs, ready to paste into the URL or permalink field of each post. The longest, at 50 characters, is the Nordic menu; with the 40-character limit it ends at …-a-nordic.
How it works
- Paste the titles, one per line.
- Choose a hyphen or an underscore. Hyphens are what search engines expect.
- Set a length if your URLs have one; it cuts at a word rather than mid-word.
- Copy the slugs.
Frequently asked questions
- How are accents handled?
- Folded to the letter underneath: café becomes cafe, Crème Brûlée creme-brulee. German and Nordic letters take the spellings those languages use instead: ü becomes ue, ß becomes ss, ø becomes oe and å becomes aa, so Glühwein is gluehwein, Großmutter grossmutter and Smørrebrød smoerrebroed — what a German or Danish reader expects to see, rather than gluhwein.
- Can a slug be in Japanese?
- Yes, and it is perfectly legal. Turn on “keep letters outside the Latin alphabet” and the characters stay; browsers show them properly and only the raw URL looks encoded. It reads far better than a transliteration.
- What if two titles give the same slug?
- The second gets a -2, the third a -3. A list of titles usually becomes a list of URLs, and two of those must not be the same.
- Why does it cut at a word?
- Because a slug cut mid-word reads as a typo. With a length set, the slug goes back to the last separator before the limit: at 40 characters, creme-brulee-vs-panna-cotta-which-is-easier becomes creme-brulee-vs-panna-cotta-which-is. Only when that separator falls in the first half of the limit, as with one very long word, is the word itself cut.
- Hyphens or underscores?
- Hyphens, unless your system asks for underscores. Search engines read a hyphen as a space between words, which is why Hyphen is preselected; Underscore gives creme_brulee_vs_panna_cotta_which_is_easier for file names or code that need it.
- What happens to £, &, brackets and other symbols?
- They are dropped, and the space they leave becomes a single separator: “10 Best Fish & Chip Shops in Cornwall (2026 Guide)” gives 10-best-fish-chip-shops-in-cornwall-2026-guide, and “£5 Lunches” gives 5-lunches. A line made only of symbols, such as “!!!”, has nothing left and says so instead of giving an empty slug.
- Is anything sent to a server?
- No. It runs in your browser, so what you paste stays on your computer.
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