URL Slug Generator
Turn any title or string into a clean, lowercase, SEO-friendly URL slug instantly. Free slug generator for bloggers, WordPress users and developers.
Slug Generator
Clean, SEO-friendly URLs for blogs.
Professional Grade Details
Instant Processing
Transformation happens client-side. No data ever leaves your device.
Unicode Support
Fully handles emojis and special characters via modern TextEncoder logic.
Lossless Sync
Switch between modes instantly without losing your original source material.
About this tool
Type a headline and get back a clean URL slug — lowercase, hyphenated, stripped of punctuation and accents — ready to paste into any CMS. Bloggers naming posts, store owners creating product URLs, and developers generating file-safe identifiers use it to keep links readable and search-friendly.
How to Create a URL Slug
- 1
Enter the title or phrase you want to convert — a blog headline, product name, or category label, punctuation and all.
- 2
The slug appears instantly: spaces become hyphens, letters drop to lowercase, special characters vanish, and accented characters are converted to plain equivalents.
- 3
Copy the slug into your CMS's URL field, route definition, or filename — it's safe for every browser, server, and sharing context.
Why Slugify with Wrklyst
- Converted Before Your Eyes
- Slug generation happens keystroke by keystroke in the browser, with nothing sent to a server — you see the exact output evolve as you type.
- Consistent Every Time
- The same rules apply to every conversion, so a whole site's URLs end up following one predictable convention instead of each author improvising.
- Frictionless by Design
- There's nothing to sign into and nothing to configure; the page is a text box and its answer.
Slug Craft
- Trim slugs to the meaningful words: "launch-checklist" outlives "the-complete-2026-launch-checklist-you-need".
- Leave dates out of slugs unless the content is truly time-bound — evergreen URLs age better.
- Match the slug to the page's primary keyword once; stuffing more repetitions in does nothing.
- Decide singular versus plural conventions site-wide early, before inconsistency fossilizes across hundreds of URLs.
Frequently asked questions
Do slugs actually affect SEO?
Modestly but genuinely. A readable slug tells both users and search engines what the page is about before they click, and descriptive URLs earn more clicks in results than /post?id=8371. Keep slugs short, include the main topic, and skip filler words for the best effect.
What happens to special characters like & or é?
Symbols such as ampersands, quotes, and question marks are removed entirely, while accented letters are transliterated — é becomes e, ü becomes u. The result contains only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, the character set that never needs percent-encoding in a URL.
Should I change a slug after a page is published?
Avoid it when possible — changing a live URL breaks existing links and forfeits accumulated ranking signals unless you set up a redirect. Generate the slug you want before publishing; if you must change one later, add a 301 redirect from the old address.
Why hyphens instead of underscores?
Google's documentation has long recommended hyphens because they're treated as word separators, letting each word in the slug be recognized individually. Underscores historically joined words together. Hyphens are also easier to read when a URL is printed or spoken aloud.