What is a “slug” in Django?

Question

When I read Django code I often see in models what is called a \"slug\". I am not quite sure what this is, but I do know it has something to do with URLs. How and when is th

Answer 1

It's a descriptive part of the URL that is there to make it more human descriptive, but without necessarily being required by the web server - in What is a "slug" in Django? the slug is 'in-django-what-is-a-slug', but the slug is not used to determine the page served (on this site at least)