Convert any text, title, or phrase into a clean URL slug instantly. Handles accents, CamelCase, stop words, and special characters. Bulk convert multiple titles at once with one click.
Slug Generator
Single modeWhat Is a URL Slug?
A URL slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable form. In https://example.com/blog/what-is-seo the slug is what-is-seo. Slugs are typically lowercase, use hyphens to separate words, and contain only alphanumeric characters. A clean slug improves URL readability, makes sharing easier, and gives search engines a clear keyword signal about the page topic.
This generator handles everything automatically: lowercasing, accent normalization (cafe becomes cafe, not caf%C3%A9), CamelCase splitting, stop word removal, special character stripping, and custom separators. Platform presets match the exact slug format used by WordPress, Shopify, Jekyll, Django, and GitHub.
Hyphens vs Underscores: Which to Use?
Google explicitly recommends hyphens over underscores for URL slugs. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator, so best-practices is parsed as two words: best and practices. Google treats an underscore as a word joiner, so best_practices is parsed as one compound word: bestpractices. Using hyphens gives each word in your slug an independent keyword signal, which is better for SEO.
Underscores are conventional in Python file naming and are used by Django for URL patterns. GitHub repository names also commonly use hyphens. The only case where underscores are standard is Python package names and Python file system paths.
Platform Slug Format Reference
| Platform | Separator | Case | Stop Words | Max Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | Hyphen | Lowercase | Optional | No hard limit (200 chars practical) |
| Shopify | Hyphen | Lowercase | No | No hard limit |
| Jekyll / Hugo | Hyphen | Lowercase | No | No hard limit |
| Django / Python | Underscore or hyphen | Lowercase | No | No hard limit |
| GitHub Repos | Hyphen | Lowercase | No | 100 chars |
| Twitter / X URLs | Hyphen | Lowercase | No | 50 chars recommended |
Accent Normalization: Why It Matters
Accented characters like cafe (e with accent), resume (e with accent), or senor (n with tilde) are valid Unicode but cause inconsistency in URLs because some systems percent-encode them (%C3%A9) while others serve them as Unicode. This creates duplicate URL variants that split link equity and cause redirect chains. Normalizing accents to their plain ASCII equivalents (e, e, n) before generating the slug produces a single clean canonical URL that works consistently across all systems.
Stop Words in Slugs: Remove or Keep?
Stop words like the, a, an, of, and, or, in, is, to, for, with carry little semantic meaning. Removing them produces shorter, cleaner slugs that focus on the meaningful keywords. The title How to Write Better Headlines for Your Blog would produce:
- Without stop word removal:
how-to-write-better-headlines-for-your-blog - With stop word removal:
write-better-headlines-blog
Whether to remove stop words depends on your content and keyword strategy. If how to is part of a target search phrase, keep it. If the slug is long and the stop words add no keyword value, remove them for a cleaner URL.
SEO tip: Google recommends keeping URLs short and descriptive. A slug under 5 meaningful words is easier to share, less likely to be truncated in social previews, and gives a cleaner keyword signal. Avoid dates in slugs unless the date is a meaningful part of the content (e.g., annual reports or event pages).
CamelCase and snake_case to Slug
Developers often need to convert programming identifiers into URL slugs. This tool handles both conversions: myVariableName becomes my-variable-name by inserting a separator before each capital letter transition. my_variable_name (snake_case) becomes my-variable-name by replacing underscores with the selected separator. This is useful for auto-generating slugs from API endpoint names, class names, or database column names.
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