HMFAYSAL OMEGA is a minimalist, responsive Jekyll theme built for writers and engineers who want their content to take center stage, created by Hossain Mohd Faysal and released under the MIT License.
What is HMFAYSAL OMEGA Theme?
HMFAYSAL OMEGA is a Jekyll theme that transforms a standard Jekyll site into a ready-to-publish blog with featured images, variable post formats, and built-in social sharing. It takes YAML front matter for each post and outputs responsive HTML pages styled with Twitter Bootstrap 3. The theme is plugin-free, so it deploys directly to GitHub Pages without additional build steps. Its author, Hossain Mohd Faysal, describes himself as an engineer and mathematician.
Key Features
- Variable post templates — Five distinct post types (article, quotation, video, photo, status) are selected via the YAML
typefield, each with its own layout. - Featured image wrapping — Set an image in YAML (
image.feature) to have it wrap the post in the header and footer, creating a cinematic frame. - Plugin-free deployment — No Ruby plugins are required, making the theme compatible with GitHub Pages out of the box, including the read-time calculator and pagination logic implemented in Liquid.
- MathJax support — Native MathJax integration lets you display LaTeX equations in posts without extra configuration.
- Social sharing tags — Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata are generated for each post to improve link previews on Facebook and Twitter.
- Search overlay — A simple client-side search filters posts by title and displays results in an overlay.
- Custom archive pages — Ready-made categories and tags pages are included, powered by the
jekyll-archivesgem when run locally. - Read time calculator — Post read-time is calculated from word count using Liquid tags, not a plugin.
Who should use HMFAYSAL OMEGA?
- Writers and bloggers who want a distraction-free layout with readable typography and optional featured images to complement their prose.
- Engineers and academics who need to publish technical posts with MathJax equations and code syntax highlighting via Pygments or Coderay stylesheets.
- GitHub Pages users who want a zero-plugin Jekyll theme that builds cleanly on GitHub's servers and includes a sitemap, 404 page, and SEO tags automatically.
What can you do with HMFAYSAL OMEGA?
- Technical bloggers: publish posts with display equations, code blocks, and read-time estimates, then share them with rich Open Graph previews.
- Photo and video journalists: use the photo and video post templates to present media-centric updates with a consistent header/footer frame.
- Developers: fork the theme, edit
_config.ymlto set site title, analytics, Disqus shortname, social links, and pagination settings, and deploy to GitHub Pages in minutes. - Portfolio holders: customize the footer menu and navigation links to create a simple personal site with a clean, content-first aesthetic.
How does HMFAYSAL OMEGA work?
Setting up the theme for a new Jekyll site involves installing Jekyll, forking the repository, editing _config.yml to personalize site title, descriptions, and social links, then adding posts with the provided YAML front matter structure. For an existing site, you copy the _includes, _layouts, _pages, assets, and images folders and add the documented configuration defaults. The theme uses kramdown for Markdown, rouge for syntax highlighting, and Liquid for templates.
