URL Slug Generator

You are creating a new page and the title is "What is New in C++20?" You need it to become a URL. Breaking this down by hand -- lowercase, strip punctuation, replace spaces with hyphens -- is the kind of busywork that breeds typos.

Paste the title. Get the slug. Copy it.

How it transforms text

"My Awesome Blog Post" becomes my-awesome-blog-post.

The tool lowercases, strips special characters, replaces spaces with your separator (hyphen, underscore, or none), and collapses consecutive separators. The result is safe to put in a URL path.

Options

• Separator -- hyphen, underscore, or none. Pick hyphen unless you have a reason not to.
• Character set -- ASCII-only transliterates non-Latin characters; Unicode mode keeps them intact (modern browsers handle both fine).
• Max length -- truncate at a word boundary so you do not cut mid-word.
• Stop word removal -- drops articles and common words (a, the, and, of, in). "The Best Guide to Python" becomes best-guide-python. Shorter, same meaning.

Separator: hyphen or underscore?

Google says hyphens. That is the answer. my-blog-post reads as three words to the search engine; my_blog_post reads as one long word. Use hyphens.

After you generate

• Check for duplicates. The tool does not know what slugs your CMS already uses. Verify before publishing.
• Do not change slugs after launch. If you must, set up a 301 redirect from the old URL. Otherwise every link, bookmark, and search result pointing at the old slug 404s.
• Batch mode -- paste a list of titles, get one slug per line. Useful when you are migrating a site or generating slugs for a product catalog.