If you have a WordPress blog and have a statistics application such as Mint, you may be running into some problems. Certain pages actually have two URLs, one with a trailing slash and one without. This causes duplicate pages listed in your statistics application, making it difficult to track exactly how many people are visiting a given page.

Thanks to Scott Yang this is no longer a problem. He’s developed a WordPress plugin called Permalink Redirect. What the plugin does is make sure that all pages only have one URL; the URL you specified in your permalink structure option. If a person visits your site using the incorrect URL they will automatically be redirected to the correct URL using a 301 redirect, insuring that it won’t happen again.

Now a word for the wise. After you install this plugin, make sure that you set your permalink structure to include a trailing slash at the end if you haven’t already. It will save you from a lot of headaches down the road.