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SocialCMSbuzz has stopped developing templates for Pligg because they are a direct competitor to Pligg CMS. They took Pligg code a year ago and started their own fork project which has been quickly losing supporters over the past several months. Anything you read from their blog or users is propaganda to lure users to their project.
Designing Pligg templates is rather simple, and anyone who is able to generate a Wordpress theme shouldn't have a problem doing the same with Pligg. Anyone who says that designing for Pligg is complicated has probably not given it a serious try anytime recently. Porting Arthemia from a Wordpress template to a Pligg template took me less than a day's work. A little extra time was spent on the additional Featured module, but the template itself was quite simple. I will try to write more about how the process works in the near future.
I would also like to take a second to explain why Pligg has roughly 40 template files. At first people are overwhelmed by the total number of files, but the reason for all those files is to give template developers total control over all of the built in features of Pligg. Wordpress only has about a dozen template files in their simplest themes, but that's because Wordpress isn't designed to be a fully functional content management system out of the box like Pligg. Pligg is closer in functionality to a forum or social networking script, with user profile, login, register, top users, tag cloud, and many other pages. We wanted to give template authors the ability to customize all of these pages through template files, which is why there are so many files to work with. What many people don't realize is that you really don't have to edit all of those files to drastically change the look of your site. The pligg.tpl, link_summary.tpl and stylesheet (css) files are more than enough to radically change how your site looks.
