We had the pleasure of meeting Stuart Duff, the brains behind the new Pligg-Template.com, not too long ago, so we thought we would do a small interview with him and introduce him the Pligg community.

Pliggs – Who runs/owns Pligg-Template
Stuart – Hi my name is Stuart Duff, Pligg Template is run and operated by my myself. We wanted to create a template provider for pligg that is transparent, dedicated and crucially one that provides great support which we think pligg templates have been lacking until now. We manage to purchase the domain name in September 0f 2009 and worked on our plans for launch in January 2010, taking a deserved break for the festive period of course.

Prior to starting Pligg Template we have done design work for clients using Wordpress, Drupal and Pligg, our favoured CMS of choice when creating designs in the past has been wordpress and we have already built a successful web design business based around that system.

Pliggs – How many people are using your video template?
Stuart – The PliggTube Template has only been available for under a week at the moment, so far however sales figures look promising and already it has seen some cool updates happen to it.

Pliggs – Do you have future templates planned, if so how soon and how many?
Stuart – We certainly do and also so much more than templates in the works. As we mentioned we come from a wordpress background so we want to bring some of those premium goodness template features to Pligg.

We don’t have a static release schedule for template’s we develop and release templates when they’re ready approach could describe it best. This allows us to test template and not be pushed into rushing things along to meet an announced release date, it also why we provide individual sales and support rather than a template club approach. We see it being and exciting journey over the next few months

Pliggs – Do you do custom work?
Stuart – At Pligg Template the answer would be no. We want to concentrate on designing and releasing some cool templates, for us to take on custom work we feel it would take time away from designing new pligg templates and more expensive to us cut into our support time.

Pliggs – What Pligg projects do you run?
Stuart – We don’t run any at the moment; we simply don’t have enough hours in the day to design templates, work on new ideas, provide support and enjoy some downtime. We are however well versed with the system overall.

Pliggs – As a whole how do you find the Pligg code to work with?
Stuart – Not bad actually and since v1.0 it seems to be easy enough to work with and pretty much stable. Also every template or module we make is developed via SVN so updating is fairly easy as is general maintenance.

Pliggs – Did you use Pligg prior to v1.0 release?
Stuart – Yes think we first used it around v.9.7 or thereabouts.

Pliggs – Can you give an example of a Pligg site you think has been well done?
Stuart – To be honest there aren’t too many that initially spring to mind http://tipd.com is clean simple and functional though and probably my favourite.

Pligg-Template.com is home to the fantastic Pligg template PliggDZine and PliggTube. They also have an affiliate program for site owners, you can sign up here.

You can catch of Stuart over at his blog, at WPScoop and on Twitter.

What do you think of the themes released by Pligg-Template.com.