Word Press Permalink Change

Question

I had the following permalink structure in my WordPress blog:

/%category%/%post-name%/

I changed it to:

/%post-name%/

Everything is fine as I am using the permalink finder plugin, which redirects the posts to new address. But, the issue is that Google Webmaster Tools shows too many duplicate meta descriptions as follows:

• /category1/postid/
• /postid/

Can anyone help me how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

this is corrent; WordPress generated always an permalink for each post with category and tag; you must dofollow this for the bots on your robots.txt, like Disallow: */?tag=* or Disallow: /category/*/*

See also the codex for this topic.