Looked for this and couldn't find it so sorry if its already here somewhere. Just point me to it. When I post on my wordpress blog it goes on the index of www.domainname.com which is fine but it looks like this "www.domainname.com/?p=11 and I'd sooner have it simple be "www.domainname.com/topicpost IS their a plugin out there available for this so every post creates a page called "www.domainname.com/topicpost" Thanks,
Don't need a plugin for it. You can specify that as part of your permalink style. (At least this is on 2.0.3) go to options/permalinks after logging in as admin. My format, which seems to work ok is /index.php/%category%/%postname%.html. Depending on your version of apache, the mod_rewrite plugin might not act right... and you'd need the index.php at the front. try it without, but if you get errors after altering your .htaccess file, you may need it.
You don't "need" to use a plug-in since Wordpress allows you to change your permalink style from within the options. But, if you already have lots of content with links and search engines pointing to those old pages you might lose the page rank that is associated with them - or worse have the content counted as duplicate content. This plug-in - http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/ - should help to take care of that issue. It will make wordpress send 301 permanent redirects when anyone tries to access the old URL structure.