Text to Slug Converter
A messy URL full of %20s, apostrophes, and accented characters looks broken and hurts click-through. Type a title and get a clean, lowercase, hyphen-separated slug instantly — accents transliterated, symbols stripped, ready to paste into your CMS.
How to Use Text to Slug Converter
Type your title
Enter your page title, headline, or product name in the text field. The slug generates live as you type.
Adjust the options
Pick hyphen or underscore as the separator, keep lowercase on (recommended), and optionally set a max length that truncates at a word boundary.
Copy your slug
Click Copy and paste the clean slug into your CMS, store platform, or code.
About Text to Slug Converter
Why slugs matter for URLs
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page — the "10-best-coffee-shops" in example.com/blog/10-best-coffee-shops. Clean slugs matter for three reasons. Readers trust and click descriptive URLs more than ones littered with encoded characters like %C3%A9. Search engines use slug words as a ranking signal, so keywords belong there. And technically, spaces, apostrophes, and symbols in URLs must be percent-encoded, which breaks copy-paste sharing and looks like spam. Most CMSs auto-generate slugs, but they often do it badly — leaving stop words, mangling accents, or producing overlong strings.
What good slugification does
Proper slug conversion involves several steps this tool performs at once. Accented characters are transliterated to their ASCII equivalents — é becomes e, ñ becomes n, ü becomes u — using Unicode decomposition, so "Crème Brûlée" turns into "creme-brulee" instead of losing letters. Everything else that isn't a letter or number (punctuation, symbols, emoji) is converted to your chosen separator, and runs of separators collapse to one. Lowercase is enforced by default because URLs are case-sensitive on most servers, and mixed-case slugs create duplicate-content headaches. An optional max length truncates at a word boundary, never mid-word.
How FluidConvert handles it
The slug updates live as you type — no button to press — so you can watch exactly how your title transforms and tweak wording until the slug reads well. Choose hyphens (the SEO-standard separator that search engines treat as word breaks) or underscores if your system requires them, set an optional character limit for platforms that cap slug length, and click Copy. Like every FluidConvert text tool, conversion happens entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded or stored, and it works offline once the page loads.
Common uses for Text to Slug Converter
- Creating SEO-friendly URL slugs for blog posts and articles before publishing
- Generating clean product-page URLs for Shopify, WooCommerce, or custom stores
- Converting titles with accents or symbols into safe ASCII-only slugs
- Producing consistent kebab-case identifiers for file names and anchors
- Shortening long headlines into concise slugs that fit CMS length limits
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I use hyphens or underscores in slugs?
Use hyphens unless your platform demands otherwise. Google has stated it treats hyphens as word separators, so "coffee-shops" is read as two words, while underscores historically joined words together ("coffee_shops" read as one token). Hyphens are also the convention users expect in URLs. Underscores remain common in filenames, database keys, and some legacy systems, which is why the option exists.
How are accented characters like é and ñ handled?
They're transliterated to plain ASCII rather than deleted. The tool uses Unicode normalization to decompose each accented letter into its base letter plus a combining mark, then strips the mark — so é becomes e, ü becomes u, ñ becomes n, and "São Paulo" becomes "sao-paulo". Special cases like ß (ss), æ (ae), and ø (o) are mapped explicitly.
How long should a URL slug be?
Shorter is generally better: 3-5 meaningful words is a common target, and many SEO guides suggest keeping slugs under 60 characters. Drop filler words and keep the terms people actually search for. Set the max-length option and the tool truncates at the nearest word boundary, so you never publish a slug that ends mid-word.
Is my text sent anywhere when I use this tool?
No. Slug generation runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript — no server round-trip, no logging, no storage. Unpublished article titles and product names stay on your machine. The tool even keeps working with your internet connection turned off once the page has loaded.