Slug Field on Event Form

[Matthew Woodward]

My curiosity is getting the better of me so I have to ask--on the event form, there's the "Slug" field and while I see where that goes in the UI, I was wondering: is "slug" an event planning term of some sort?

Or to put it another way, if someone asks me what "slug" is, do I say "that's the text that shows up in the drop-down on the top menu bar," or is there a more precise way to explain what specifically that term means?

Thanks.

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[Sam Goldstein]

I think a slug is typically a bit of normalized (e.g. downcased, dasherized) text generated from a page's (e.g. blog post) title, and used in the url.

example:

    http://blog.com/this-is-the-url-slug

http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Post_Slug

http://www.andrewingram.net/articles/readable_url_slugs/

~s

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[Igal Koshevoy]

Matthew,

The event "slug" is a string that uniquely identifies a specific event
in URLs. E.g., the slug is the "2010" in
http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2010/sessions and the "9" in
http://proposals.igniteportland.com/events/9/proposals

-igal

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Matthew Woodward <ma...@mattwoodward.com> wrote:

[Matt Woodward]

On Oct 5, 9:08 am, Igal Koshevoy <i...@pragmaticraft.com> wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> The event "slug" is a string that uniquely identifies a specific event
> in URLs. E.g., the slug is the "2010" inhttp://opensourcebridge.org/events/2010/sessionsand the "9" inhttp://proposals.igniteportland.com/events/9/proposals

Perfect--thanks Igal and Sam!