Question 1

What characters are removed from a slug?

Accepted Answer

All characters except letters, numbers, and hyphens are removed. Spaces and underscores become hyphens, accented characters are transliterated (é→e, ü→u, ç→c), and consecutive hyphens are collapsed to one. The result is lowercase and safe for use in URLs without percent-encoding.

Question 2

Should a slug end with a hyphen?

Accepted Answer

No. Trailing and leading hyphens are stripped automatically. A slug like my-blog-post- would become my-blog-post. This is standard behaviour for SEO-friendly URL slugs.

Question 3

What is the maximum recommended slug length?

Accepted Answer

Keep slugs under 60–75 characters. Search engines truncate long URLs in their display. Google recommends short, descriptive URLs with 3–5 meaningful keywords. Avoid filler words (the, a, of, and) if the slug becomes too long.

Question 4

Should I include a date in the slug?

Accepted Answer

It depends on your content strategy. Date-based slugs (/2024/05/my-post) help with organisation but make evergreen content seem dated. Dateless slugs (/my-post) are cleaner for content you update over time. Most modern blogs and docs use dateless slugs.

Question 5

Is my text safe here?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Slug generation runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.

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