The implementor is where I fit, but it is such a strange word that I bill myself as a WordPress Consultant - I don't just implement, I consult. I know WP well and what it can do and how it can fit inside a client's business operations. Having a business degree is essential to me because when they ask for a website, I ask them business questions and build the sites around their business needs. I speak their language instead web development language. I know what business plan should look like and how to ask questions about them (yes, your WordPress development clients should have business plans).

The thing about being an implementor, is that we really do fit inside the industry quite well. The role of an implementor is to know and understand the WP ecosystem, what WP can do and what it can be manipulated to do. Keep up with trends across a wide swath of knowledge areas (design trends, social trends, usage and much more). While I dabble in PHP and template files, I certainly can't write an inventive plugin from scratch. That's what programmers and developers are for. I can write CSS rules and know my way around a stylesheet, but I can't build a beautiful them from scratch. That's what designers are for.

But knowing what WordPress can do (in an operational sense, as opposed to a programmatic sense - how does a site operate and does it provide a solution to an operational business need) is what an implementor is all about. I know how to put it together, I keep track of what is new and hot in WordPress so that I know not only the tried and true solutions, but the innovative ones too. That is where our special skillset comes into play. Implementors rely on the skills of developers, programmers and designers (and we will happily pay them!) to create products and services that let us merge their tools into a coherent whole that solves problems and provides outstanding websites for clients.