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Sticky topics are a very good way to get your information out about a certain forum. The sticky post will go on top of the board that you post it on. It will remain there until you unsticky it or if you only sticky for a certain amount of days. You can find the option to sticky a post just below the Text Area. Behind the option Post topic as you see as second option: Sticky! Shown in the picture below:

Note: You only see this option when you're creating a new topic, or editing the first post of a topic. It has to be the first post, not a random one!






There is another way to do this. If you have already created your topic and you want to make it a sticky, all you have to do is, just go to that topic and scroll to the bottom. You should see a Quick-Mod Tools drop-down box. Choose sticky, and press go:



Help! I do not see the "Post topic as" nor the "Quick-mod tools", what can I do?\
No need to panic, this can easily be resolved. Just follow the following steps.

First make sure that you, or the user that you want to be able to post stickies is in the Global Moderators group!

[1] Go to your Administration Control Panel (ACP).
[2] Select the Advanced Admin Panel.
[3] Go to the Permissions tab.
[4] Select the Groups' Forum Permissions
[5] Select the Global Moderators group.
[6] Select All Forums.
[7] Set all roles to Full Access.*
* If you click on "Advanced Permissions" you will see all the permissions available, in the "Post" tab you will see as last option: "Can post stickies", this permissions will grant users the ability to post stickies.
[8] Click on Apply All Permissions.
[9] Click on Back to Previous Page.
[10] Select All Forums again.
[11] In the drop down menu Select type: Moderator Permissions.
[12] Set all roles to Full Moderator.*
* If you click on "Advanced permissions" you will see all the permissions available.
[13] Click on Apply All Permissions.

Everyone in the Global Moderators group is now able to post stickies and also has all the other Moderator Permissions!