Slug Generator

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a specific page, such as 'best-running-shoes' in example.com/best-running-shoes. A slug generator converts a title or phrase into that format: lowercase, with spaces replaced by hyphens and anything unsafe for a URL removed. Xevon Tools' Slug Generator does this in your browser. It lowercases the text, transliterates accented and other non-ASCII letters to their nearest ASCII equivalent so 'Café au Lait' becomes 'cafe-au-lait', strips punctuation and symbols, collapses runs of whitespace into single hyphens, and trims any hyphens from the start and end. A useful detail to understand is how symbols are treated. The tool removes them rather than spelling them out, so an ampersand disappears and 'JPG & PNG' becomes 'jpg-png' rather than 'jpg-and-png'. If you want a word like 'and' in the slug, type it into the title before generating. Likewise, scripts that have no clean Latin transliteration may be dropped entirely, so a title in a non-Latin alphabet can produce a short or empty slug that you will want to set manually. Clean slugs matter for SEO and usability: they are easier to read in search results and when shared, they avoid ugly percent-encoding that appears when raw symbols or spaces end up in a URL, and short keyword-focused slugs tend to outperform long ones, so trimming filler words after generating is good practice. Typical uses include WordPress, Ghost, and Hugo permalinks, e-commerce product URLs, documentation anchor IDs, and campaign landing pages, all generated privately without your draft titles touching a server.