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part of a URL that makes it more human readable or SEO-friendly, but without necessarily being required by the web server.

A slug is a part of a URL that makes it more human readable or SEO-friendly, but without necessarily being required by the web server. Slugs can be generated from a page title and are typically the last part of the url.

Example:

  • Page Title: c# - What's the difference between String and string? - Stack Overflow
  • Slug: whats-the-difference-between-string-and-string

The full URL including the slug is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7074/whats-the-difference-between-string-and-string. Note that punctuation in the url is typically removed.

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Is there an easy way to populate SlugField from CharField?

class Foo(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=20) slug = models.SlugField() Is there a built-in way to get the slug field to autopopulate based on the title? Perhaps in the Admin and outside of the Admin.
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Can an "SEO Friendly" url contain a unique ID?

I'd like to start using "SEO Friendly Urls" but the notion of generating and looking up large, unique text "ids" seems to be a significant performance challenge relative to simply looking up by an integer. Now, I know this isn't as "human friendly",…
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How can I create a friendly URL in ASP.NET MVC?

How do I generate friendly URLs within the ASP.NET MVC Framework? For example, we've got a URL that looks like this: http://site/catalogue/BrowseByStyleLevel/1 The 1 is Id of the study level (Higher in this case) to browse, but I'l like to reformat…
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Convert non-ASCII characters (umlauts, accents...) to their closest ASCII equivalent (for slug creation)

I am looking for way in JavaScript to convert non-ASCII characters in a string to their closest equivalent, similarly to what the PHP iconv function does. For instance if the input string is Rånades på Skyttis i Ö-vik, it should be converted to…
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django.db.utils.IntegrityError: UNIQUE constraint failed: rango_category__new.slug

I'm learning Django from Tango with Django but I keep getting this error when I type: python manage.py makemigrations rango python manage.py migrate This is the output: django.db.utils.IntegrityError: UNIQUE constraint failed:…
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How to create a unique slug in Django

I am trying to create a unique slug in Django so that I can access a post via a url like this: http://www.example.com/buy-a-new-bike_Boston-MA-02111_2 The relevant models: class ZipCode(models.Model): zipcode = models.CharField(max_length=5) …
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URL Friendly Username in PHP?

On my PHP site, currently users login with an email address and a password. I would like to add a username as well, this username they g\set will be unique and they cannot change it. I am wondering how I can make this name have no spaces in it and…
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Convert string into slug with single-hyphen delimiters only

I would like to sanitize a string in to a URL so this is what I basically need: Everything must be removed except alphanumeric characters and spaces and dashed. Spaces should be converter into dashes. Eg. This, is the URL! must…
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Wordpress: How to get the tag's slug on the tag page

I'm on the tag.php page. How can I get its slug? single_tag_title() gets the title just fine, but the slug?
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Generate SEO friendly URLs (slugs)

Definition From Wikipedia: A slug is the part of a URL which identifies a page using human-readable keywords. To make the URL easier for users to type, special characters are often removed or replaced as well. For instance, accented characters…
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Should I create a slug on the fly or store in DB?

A slug is part of a URL that describes or titles a page and is usually keyword rich for that page improving SEO. e.g. In this URL PHP/JS - Create thumbnails on the fly or store as files that last section…
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How can I create a SEO friendly dash-delimited url from a string?

Take a string such as: In C#: How do I add "Quotes" around string in a comma delimited list of strings? and convert it to: in-c-how-do-i-add-quotes-around-string-in-a-comma-delimited-list-of-strings Requirements: Separate each word by a…
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How to get attribute name instead of slug in variation?

I need to get attribute from woocommerce product variation. $terms = get_post_meta($value['variation_id'], 'attribute_pa_color', true); This code is giving me an attribute slug instead of name. How can I get attribute name? Thank you so much in…
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ID + Slug name in URL in Rails (like in StackOverflow)

I'm trying to achieve URLs like this in Rails: http://localhost/posts/1234/post-slug-name with both ID and slug name instead of either http://localhost/posts/1234 or http://localhost/posts/post-slug-name (right now I have just slug name in URL,…
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How to Set POST permalink/slug in wordpress using wp_insert_post

I m writing simple script using wp_insert_post() to post article in blog. but one problem here, I want to make Title and slug of an URL different. How to achieve this? for example: Title: How to make your diet success Slug:…
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