Slug Generator

The URL-friendly version of a post, page, category or tag name. Appears in the URL after the domain (e.g., example.com/hello-world/). Slugs are lowercase, contain only letters/numbers/hyphens, and have special characters removed or replaced. WordPress generates them automatically via sanitize_title().

WordPress converts accents to ASCII via remove_accents(): é→e, ñ→n, ü→u, ç→c, ø→o, ß→ss, ä→a, ö→o. So "Über den Dächern" becomes "uber-den-dachern". Characters with no ASCII equivalent (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic) are encoded by default — plugins like Polylang can preserve originals for multilingual sites.

Yes — short, keyword-focused slugs perform better. Best practices: remove stop words (a, an, the, and, or, in, on, to, for, is, are); keep under 5 words / 60 characters; use your primary keyword; avoid dates unless time-specific; use hyphens not underscores. Example: "how-to-speed-up-wordpress" beats the auto-generated "how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-website-in-2024".

WordPress automatically creates a 301 redirect from the old slug to the new one. External links still work via the redirect. However: you split any link equity; there's a small DB overhead; internal links need manual updating. Best practice: set the correct slug before publishing. If you change it post-publish: update internal links, submit to Google Search Console, check for broken links.