Technical Role
Technical specialists know how to use technical tools such as WordPress.
In order to not be “spoon fed”, they need to know a lot of other things too.
Check own work
Checking your work. Making sure it’s done and working on browsers. Ensuring things
Asking for help, seek solution approval
Knowing to get someone to check your work or ask for help (early on).
Understand Visual Planning Process
Understand prototyping, how to interpret rough layouts.
Research and prototyping solutions
Finding plugins and testing out. Understanding how to functional prototype – what to test, and when to stop.
Collaboration
Knowing when to get others to look at your solutions and ask for help before too much time is spent.
Work to technical standards
Understand and follow the plugin and coding policy. Not coding, not using non-premium plugins.
Having awareness and executing website quality tasks.
Keeping a basic standard of website awareness such as non-indexing/indexing of sites. Optimizing and using correct tags.
How to maintain and improve
Knowing how to generate work by looking at a website and making to-do lists.
Keeping things simple
Reducing plugin complexity, keep fonts global. Not using non-Google fonts. Knowing when to not execute a design or feature because it is complex.
Technical Estimating Time
Include time taken to investigate issue as well as time needed for revisions.