How is this different from a plain slugifier?

It is tuned for titles: alongside lowercasing and hyphenating, you can cap the number of words and drop common stop words like "the", "a" and "of" to keep blog URLs short and readable.

Will removing stop words ever empty the slug?

No. If stripping stop words would remove every word (for example a title that is only "The And Of"), the tool keeps the original words instead.

Is my title uploaded anywhere?

No. The slug is generated entirely in your browser and your titles never leave your device.

Should I remove stop words from a URL slug?

It is optional. Dropping words like the, a and of makes slugs shorter and arguably cleaner, but keep important keywords. The tool only removes common filler words and never empties the slug.

Should I use hyphens or underscores in a slug?

Hyphens are the safer SEO choice because search engines treat hyphens as word separators, whereas underscores can join words together. The tool defaults to hyphens but lets you pick underscores.

How does it handle accented characters?

Accented letters are folded to their plain ASCII equivalents — for example café becomes cafe and Zürich becomes zurich — so the slug stays URL-safe.

Slug From Title — Gera Tools

Turn headlines into short, clean slugs

Paste a blog post or page title and get a tidy, URL-safe slug back. Unlike a plain slugifier, this tool is tuned for headlines — it can cap the length and drop filler words so permalinks stay short and readable. It is for bloggers, CMS users and developers generating permalinks from titles.

How it works

The title is normalised in a few steps:

Lowercase the whole string.
Fold accents to plain ASCII (é → e, ñ → n) so the slug is URL-safe.
Strip punctuation and split into words.
Optionally remove stop words like the, a, of and for. If removing them would leave nothing, the original words are kept instead.
Optionally cap the slug to the first N words.
Join the words with your chosen separator — a hyphen or underscore.

Example

The title “10 Tips for Writing the Perfect Blog Post!” with stop words removed and a 5-word cap becomes:

10-tips-writing-perfect-blog

Without those options it would be 10-tips-for-writing-the-perfect-blog-post.

Everything runs in your browser — your titles never leave your device.