Wordpresss Bug? Duplicate pages yet again, Adviced Needed

[Chris__Chris]

I have work up this morning with a large number of missing meta description, when I looked at th pages (knowing I have to missing metas) I have duplicates of my pages that look like this, These pages normally look like www.finalduties.co.uk/  NAME OF POST now i have urls with numbers in, seems as though all my blog posts have duplicated.. Now could this be down to a wordpress bug? I am so fed up, I had all my errors all cleared up only to wake and have pages like this, which is going to cause me a problem because my pages are now duplicating.. please help, advice needed from someone that knows wordpress?

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Father and son battle over 13th century inheritance

http://www.finalduties.co.uk/?p=1006		1	0

Court of Appeal rules against RSCPA

http://www.finalduties.co.uk/?p=1007		1	0

Life insurance policy payout can skip probate process

http://www.finalduties.co.uk/?p=1008		1	0

Government clamping down on inheritance tax avoidance

http://www.finalduties.co.uk/?p=1010 |

[Chris__Chris]

Its also showing I have 526 Issue: Rel Canonical.. and its all my pages with different URL's now I haven't touched any plugins or done anything apart from add posts ?

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Elissa,

If you look at the source code for (as an example):
http://www.finalduties.co.uk/probate/father-and-son-battle-over-13th-century-inheritance/

You will see a bit in the head like this (just under the rel=canonical):

So you are giving a link to 2 versions of the same page in your code.
The short tag is put in since wordpress 3 (maybe you recently updated wordress?).

You can see 2 ways of removing this tag here:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-and-remove-shortlink-link-rel-hook-in-wordpress-header/

Hopefully that will help with the duplicate content / rel canonical issues in site explorer (I don't think I see any of these ?p= links in the google results for your site as of yet).