# Slug

URL: https://xodia.ai/glossary/slug
Description: What a URL slug is, what makes a good one, and how Xodia sets slugs for pages and CMS items, with the full address shown and item slugs locked once saved.
Last updated: 2026-11-08

A slug is the last part of a page's address, written in lowercase words joined by hyphens, such as my-first-post in /blog/my-first-post.

How Xodia sets slugs: a page's settings set its slug with the full address shown, and a CMS item's slug is made from its title and locked once saved, so links to it keep working.

Updated November 8, 2026

## What it is

Slugs make addresses readable for people and search engines. A good slug is short, describes the page and doesn't change, because changing it moves the page to a new address.

Slugs use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, so they work in every browser and need no escaping.

## In Xodia

A page's settings set its slug next to its parent folder, with the full address shown. A CMS item's slug is made from its title and locked once saved; changing it on purpose moves the item's page.

A collection can keep slugs no item may take, so a page such as /blog/archive can sit beside the posts.

## Read more

- [Guide: organise pages in folders](https://xodia.ai/guides/organise-pages-in-folders)
- [Xodia CMS](https://xodia.ai/product/cms)

## Related terms

- [URL folder A URL folder is a part of a web address that groups pages under it, such as services in /services/web-design, so the address shows where a page sits in the site.](https://xodia.ai/glossary/url-folder)
- [Redirect A redirect sends a visitor or search engine from one address to another, such as from a page's old address to its new one after it moves.](https://xodia.ai/glossary/redirect)
- [Collection page A collection page is one page design that shows every item of a CMS collection, each at its own address, such as /blog/my-first-post for each post in a blog.](https://xodia.ai/glossary/collection-page)

[See every term in the glossary](https://xodia.ai/glossary)

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