Slugs are the URL-safe version of a title, and the difference between a good slug and a bad one is search visibility. The ChrysoKit Slugify tool produces clean, lowercase, hyphenated slugs that handle accents and non-Latin scripts correctly.
Why use it
A handwritten slug is one typo away from a duplicate. A slugifier is consistent across hundreds of titles and handles edge cases (accents, ampersands, symbols) automatically.
How to use the Slugify
- Paste the title.
- Read the slug below.
- Tweak the rules: max length, keep underscores, allow uppercase.
- Copy and paste into your CMS.
Features worth knowing
Unicode handling
Accents are stripped or transliterated; non-Latin scripts are romanised.
Configurable rules
Max length, separator, case and reserved-word handling.
Live preview
The slug updates as you type.
Pro tips
- Keep slugs short. 3-5 words usually cover the topic and look better in search results.
- Avoid stop words ('a', 'the', 'of') unless they change the meaning.
- Once a slug is published, don't change it. If you must, redirect the old one with a 301.
Privacy first. The Slugify runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server.
Run every title through Slugify before publishing. Clean URLs are a small SEO win that compounds.
Open the tool: Slugify →
A migration story: 400 URLs and the cost of inconsistent slugs
A small magazine site migrating between CMS platforms discovered it had four years of slugs created by hand: some uppercase, some with underscores, several with stray apostrophes, and a dozen Greek-character URLs that displayed as percent-encoded soup whenever shared by email. None of this mattered day to day... until migration forced every URL through an exporter that handled each inconsistency differently, breaking inbound links from other sites that had accumulated since 2022.
The cleanup took a weekend that consistent slugging would have made unnecessary: normalise everything to lowercase hyphenated ASCII, then write 301 redirects from every historical variant to its canonical form. The redirect file ended up at 380 lines... a permanent maintenance artifact created entirely by early inconsistency.
The lesson generalises beyond migrations. Slugs are the one part of content that gets copied into places you do not control: bookmarks, citations, other people's articles, printed documents. A title can be retuned forever; the slug is effectively immutable from the moment someone links to it. Deciding the rules once... lowercase, hyphens, transliterate non-Latin, no dates, 3-5 words... and automating them means never holding that particular weekend cleanup.