Text to Slug

The Text to Slug tool converts titles and phrases into clean URL slugs: lowercase, hyphen-separated, with accented characters transliterated (é → e, ñ → n) and symbols removed. 'How to Make Great Coffee!' becomes 'how-to-make-great-coffee' — the process publishers commonly call slugifying a title.

It's used constantly by anyone publishing content or managing structured URLs: a blogger generating a URL slug from a post title, a store owner building consistent product-page slugs for an e-commerce catalog, a developer creating anchor IDs for a table of contents from section headings, and multilingual sites converting titles containing accents or unusual punctuation ('Café & Garçon', 'Wie geht's?') into ASCII-safe URLs that work in every browser and server without extra encoding.

Conversion handles more than a simple lowercase-and-hyphenate pass: accented and diacritic characters are transliterated to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent rather than stripped outright, ampersands convert to 'and' so the meaning of 'Rock & Roll' survives as 'rock-and-roll' instead of disappearing, and repeated whitespace or symbols collapse into a single separator rather than leaving double hyphens. A separator toggle switches between hyphens (the URL convention) and underscores (useful for code identifiers or filenames that shouldn't contain hyphens).

Clean slugs matter for both SEO and usability: they're readable directly in search results and browser address bars, safe in every server and CMS without percent-encoding, and stable enough that they rarely need to change. When choosing between hyphens and underscores for a URL, use hyphens — search engines treat hyphens as word boundaries but may read an underscore-joined phrase as a single unbroken term, which works against how the slug is meant to be found. Keep slugs under roughly 60 characters and focused on the page's main keywords, and once a slug is published, avoid changing it — doing so breaks existing links and loses any SEO value the URL had already accumulated.