WordPress 3.1 – How does one add sticky post capabilities to post types

In wordpress 3.1 they finally added the option of allowing posts belonging to a custom post type to be marked as “sticky”… what I can’t figure out though is how to enable this so the admin menu option shows up.

I was thinking it might have something to do with the “supports” argument when the post type is defined in the functions.php file however I can’t find any references.

Any I on how I can get these sticky options to show up in the admin area?

As noted in the trac ticket, you need to add that UI element in yourself. If you’re still looking for it, I made a plugin to add custom post type sticky support, available here.