HMFAYSAL OMEGA THEME

Project name: HMFAYSAL OMEGA THEME
Author: Hossain Mohd Faysal
Project type: The Coolest Theme for Jekyll License: MIT License

HMFAYSAL OMEGA is a minimalist, beautiful, responsive theme for Jekyll designed for engineers as well as writers who want their content to take front and center. This theme elegantly wraps each page and post with featured images complementing the content. It was built -- by Engineer slash Mathematician Hossain Mohd Faysal.

The theme features:

Twitter Bootstrap 3
Option to set featured image that wraps your post in header and footer
Custom Javascript to emphasize the first paragraph p:first-child of your post
Variable templates for articles, quotation, video, photo and status updates (post types)
Display Equations via Native MathJax Support
Plugin-free/Github Pages Deployment Ready
Read time Calculator: Calculation of post read-time based on word count (Via Liquid Tags instead of a plugin)
Complex pagination script if you decide to turn pagination on
CSS3 transitions for better performance
Ability to turn of animations in _config.yml
Readable typography to make your words shine
Disqus comments if you choose to enable
Simple and clear permalink structure
Footer Menu
SVG graphics
Google Fonts
361 Fontawesome icons
Tags for Open Graph and Twitter Cards for a better social sharing experience
Beautifully crafted 404 page
Custom categories and tags pages for viewers pleasure
Stylesheets for Pygments and Coderay to make your code examples look snazzy
Simple search that overlays results based on post title
Sitemap for search engines
Designed by an Electrical Engineer

For a full list of features, visit this link

Basic Setup for a new Jekyll site

Install Jekyll and read through this installation instructions if you haven't already.
Fork the HMFAYSAL OMEGA Theme
Clone the repo you just forked.
Edit _config.yml to personalize your site.
Check out the sample posts in _posts to see examples for pulling in large feature images, assigning categories and tags, and other YAML data.
Read the documentation below for further customization pointers and documentation.

Pro-tip: Delete the gh-pages branch after cloning and start fresh by branching off master. There is a bunch of garbage in gh-pages used for the theme's demo site that I'm guessing you don't want on your site.

Setup for an Existing Jekyll site

Clone the following folders: _includes, _layouts, _pages, assets, and images.
Set the following default variables in your _config.yml file:

title:            Site Title
description:      Site description for the metas.
logo:             omikron.png
disqus_shortname: shortname
# Assign a default image for your site's header and footer
default_bg:       default_bg.jpg
search:           true
share:            true
# Read Time is a calculator tp provide post read-time based on word count. Usage is recommended.
readtime:         true
# Turn on or off the fin animations in the header and footer
triangleheader:	  true
animated_fins:    true
# Specify the fin color in RGB value
fin_color:        "255,255,255"
# Change url to your domain. Leave localhost server or blank when working locally.
url:              http://localhost:4000
# baseurl:           

# Gems used
gems:
  - jekyll-feed
  - jekyll-archives
  - jekyll-paginate
  - jekyll-sitemap
  - jekyll-gist
  - jekyll-seo-tag

# Archives configuration
# https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-archives/blob/master/docs/configuration.md
jekyll-archives:
  enabled:
    - categories
    - tags
  layout: 'archive'
  permalinks:
    # year: '/:year/'
    # month: '/:year/:month/'
    # day: '/:year/:month/:day/'
    tag: '/archive/tag/:name/'
    category: '/archive/category/:name/'

# Owner/author information
author:
  name:           Your Name
  picture:        your-photo.jpg
  email:          your@email.com
  # Use the coder's toolbox at http://coderstoolbox.net/string/#!encoding=xml&action=encode&charset=us_ascii to encode your description into XML string
  description:    Some Details about yourself
  # Social networking links used in footer. Update and remove as you like.
  twitter:
  facebook:
  github:
  linkedin:
  instagram:
  tumblr:
  # For Google Authorship https://plus.google.com/authorship
  google_plus:    "http://plus.google.com/123123123123132123"

# Analytics and webmaster tools stuff goes here
google_analytics:
google_verify:

# Links to include in top navigation
# For external links add external: true
links:
  - title: Home
    url: /
    external: false
    icon: home
  - title: Categories
    url: /categories
  - title: Tags
    url: /tags

# Sitemap configuration
# https://github.com/kinnetica/jekyll-plugins
sitemap:
    file: "/sitemap.xml"
    exclude:
        - "/atom.xml"
        - "/feed.xml"
        - "/feed/index.xml"
    include_posts:
        - "/index.html"

# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
timezone:    America/New_York
future:      true
markdown:    kramdown
highlighter: rouge
paginate:    6
paginate_path: "/blog/:num/"

# https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Permalinks
collections:
  posts:
    output: true
    permalink: /blog/:title
  pages:
    output: true
    permalink: /:title

kramdown:
  auto_ids: true
  footnote_nr: 1
  entity_output: as_char
  toc_levels: 1..6

Post Front Matter YAML

HMFAYSAL OMEGA uses variable post templates for articles, quotation, video, photo and status updates.

A new blog post should have the following structure to utilise the themes functions

---
layout: post
title: "Some Title"					# Title of the post
description: Some description		# Description of the post, used for Facebook Opengraph & Twitter
headline: Some headline				# Will appear in bold letters on top of the post
modified: YYYY-MM-DD				# Date
category: personal
tags: []
image: 
  feature: some-image.jpg
comments: true
mathjax:
---

A new status should have the following structure to utilise the themes functions

---
layout: post
type: status                # ! Important
title: "Some Title"         # Title of the post
description: Some description   # Description of the post, used for Facebook Opengraph & Twitter
headline: Some headline       # Will appear in bold letters on top of the post
modified: YYYY-MM-DD        # Date
category: personal
tags: []
image: 
  feature: some-image.jpg
comments: true
mathjax:
---

A new quotation post should have the following structure to utilise the themes functions

---
layout: post
type:  quote                # ! Important
title: "Some Title"         # Title of the post
description: Some description   # Description of the post, used for Facebook Opengraph & Twitter
headline: Some headline       # Will appear in bold letters on top of the post
modified: YYYY-MM-DD        # Date
category: personal
tags: []
image: 
  feature: some-image.jpg
comments: true
mathjax:
---

A new video post should have the following structure to utilise the themes functions

---
layout: post
type:  video                # ! Important
title: "Some Title"         # Title of the post
description: Some description   # Description of the post, used for Facebook Opengraph & Twitter
headline: Some headline       # Will appear in bold letters on top of the post
modified: YYYY-MM-DD        # Date
category: personal
tags: []
image: 
  feature: some-image.jpg
comments: true
mathjax:
---

A new photo post should have the following structure to utilise the themes functions. By default, the featured image is shown on the blog index, but if you want to display another photo, you can choose to do so :)

---
layout: post
type:  photo                # ! Important
photo: some-image.jpg 		# In case you do not want the featured image to display on the front page
title: "Some Title"         # Title of the post
description: Some description   # Description of the post, used for Facebook Opengraph & Twitter
headline: Some headline       # Will appear in bold letters on top of the post
modified: YYYY-MM-DD        # Date
category: personal
tags: []
image: 
  feature: some-image2.jpg
comments: true
mathjax:
---

Questions?

Having a problem getting something to work or want to know why I setup something in a certain way? Ping me on Twitter @hmfaysal or file a GitHub Issue.

Requests?

If you have some specific requests for this theme, or if you need help custom coding some elements, message me on Twitter @hmfaysal or email me at hmfaysal@alum.mit.edu

License

This theme is free and open source software, distributed under the The MIT License. So feel free to use this Jekyll theme on your site without linking back to me or using a disclaimer.

If you'd like to give me credit somewhere on your blog or tweet a shout out to @hmfaysal, that would be pretty sweet.

Warm Regards and Stay Creative,
Hossain Mohd. Faysal

jekyll-theme-omega

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