Is there an easy way to populate SlugField from CharField?

for Admin in Django 1.0 and up, you’d need to use

prepopulated_fields = {'slug': ('title',), }

in your admin.py

Your key in the prepopulated_fields dictionary is the field you want filled, and the value is a tuple of fields you want concatenated.

Outside of admin, you can use the slugify function in your views. In templates, you can use the |slugify filter.

There is also this package which will take care of this automatically: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-autoslug