How to make a URL slug
- Type or paste a title. The slug appears right away and can be copied with one click.
- Choose the separator, and switch the options on or off: lowercase, plain A–Z letters, stop words, a length limit.
- Have many titles? Switch to Bulk, paste one title per line, and copy or download the list of slugs.
Good slugs are short and describe the page. Removing stop words such as “the” and “of” shortens the address, but keep them when they change the meaning. Once a page is published, avoid changing its slug, or set up a redirect from the old address.
Questions
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. Slugs are made by a script in your browser, so draft titles and unpublished page names stay on your device.
What is a URL slug?
The slug is the readable last part of a web address that names a page, such as best-cafe-recipes in example.com/blog/best-cafe-recipes. Short slugs made of lowercase words joined by hyphens are easy to read, share, and type.
Hyphen or underscore: which should I use?
Use hyphens for web pages. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator, so “cafe-recipes” reads as two words, while an underscore joins them into one. Underscores are common in file names and code identifiers.
Which languages are turned into plain letters?
Accented Latin letters (é, ñ, ü, ç, ł, ø and more), Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, and Bulgarian Cyrillic, and Greek. For example, “Привет” becomes “privet”. Scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic are left as they are, because there is no single agreed way to convert them.
How does the maximum length work?
The slug is cut at the last whole word that fits, so you never get a half word at the end. If the very first word is longer than the limit, that word is cut at the limit.
Credits
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