Convert headlines into tidy URL slugs — lower case, accent-stripped, punctuation removed and words joined by hyphens, with optional removal of common stop words.
Getting started
Type or paste your page title or headline.
Choose a separator — hyphens are the standard and what search engines prefer.
Optionally strip common stop words such as 'the', 'a' and 'of' to shorten the slug.
Copy the generated slug into your content management system.
Why it helps
Strips accents and special characters that break URLs or get percent-encoded into unreadable strings.
Produces the lower-case hyphenated format search engines and most platforms expect.
Stop-word removal keeps slugs short without losing the meaningful keywords.
Handles any language that uses Latin script correctly.
In practice
Creating a permalink for a new blog post or article.
Generating consistent slugs for product pages in an online shop.
Migrating a site and needing clean URLs generated in bulk from existing titles.
Naming files and folders in a way that stays safe across operating systems.
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