Convert any text to a URL-friendly slug. Remove special characters, spaces and accents.
The Text to Slug Converter turns any title or phrase into a clean, URL-friendly slug by removing special characters, normalizing accented letters and replacing spaces with your chosen separator. It's ideal for developers, CMS users and SEO professionals who need consistent, readable permalink slugs. Options for lowercase enforcement, number removal and custom separators give you full control over the output format.
Before stripping non-ASCII characters, the converter transliterates common accented letters to their ASCII equivalents using a lookup map - for example, é becomes e, ü becomes u and ß becomes ss. This ensures that titles in French, German, Spanish or Portuguese produce readable, human-friendly slugs rather than truncated ones. After transliteration, any remaining non-alphanumeric characters are removed and consecutive separators are collapsed to a single one.
Yes. The entire conversion runs in your browser using JavaScript - no text is sent to any server, stored in a database or logged in any way. You can safely generate slugs from unpublished article titles, internal project names or confidential product names without concern.
Google's web crawlers historically treat hyphens as word separators in URLs, while underscores join words together as a single token - meaning my-blog-post is indexed as three words whereas my_blog_post may be treated as one compound word. For SEO purposes, hyphen-separated slugs are the widely recommended standard and are used by most major platforms including WordPress, Medium and GitHub. Underscores remain appropriate for file system paths or API route parameters where word-boundary parsing is not needed.
The tool handles Latin-script languages well but does not transliterate non-Latin scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Cyrillic - characters from these scripts will be removed entirely, producing a potentially empty or truncated slug. For multilingual sites, you should use a server-side transliteration library that handles your target languages. Additionally, the tool does not check whether a slug is unique within your CMS - you must verify uniqueness yourself.
WordPress auto-generates slugs from post titles using a similar stripping approach, but applies it only after you save or publish - you cannot preview the result in real time. This standalone tool lets you generate and refine slugs before entering them into any system, making it useful for planning URL structures, bulk-preparing slugs offline, or working with platforms that do not auto-generate them such as static site generators or custom backends.