Paste the title into a browser-based slug generator and it lowercases the text, strips punctuation and accents, and joins the words with hyphens, turning "10 Tips for Faster Builds!" into 10-tips-for-faster-builds. It runs locally, is free, and gives you a clean, consistent slug every time.
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL, and the conventions exist for good reasons: lowercase avoids case-sensitivity mismatches, hyphens are the standard word separator that search engines treat as spaces, and stripping punctuation and diacritics keeps the URL safe to share anywhere. Short, descriptive slugs are easier to read in search results and less likely to get mangled when copied.
When slugs are made by hand, the same title ends up slugged three different ways, and inconsistent URLs mean broken links and duplicate pages. Running every title through the same generator gives you one deterministic rule, the same input always produces the same slug, which is exactly what a CMS or static site needs.
Hyphens are the established convention for word separation in URLs and are treated as word boundaries by search engines.
They are transliterated to their plain ASCII equivalents, so cafe with an accent becomes cafe, keeping the URL universally safe.
No. Slug generation happens entirely in your browser.