What's a slug?

May 17, 2009

Several Google searches for this question lately, so let's have a look at this particularly odd bit of WordPress jargon. "Slug" refers to the part of the URL used to point to an individual post, a category archive or a tag archive. This post's title is "What's a slug?" but its slug is whats-a-slug: WordPress automatically makes the post title into a URL-friendly version by removing punctuation... Read more