[johnhiler]

Check out the “bb_topic_labels();” function on your front-page.php template:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php#L24

The word “sticky” used to be hardwired into templates, but it got moved into the bb_topic_labels function in version 0.8.x. That provides the infrastructure for things like the Topic Icons plugin. More here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-is-bb_topic_labels