Answers.Body: <p>It’s not possible to do that unless you’ve already got the last word saved somewhere.</p>
  
  <p>Here’s what I would recommend:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Create two new Plain Text fields - “First Name” and “Last Name”</li>
  <li>Go to your People section’s entry type settings</li>
  <li><p>Uncheck the “Show the Title field?” setting and set the “Title Format” setting to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{firstName} {lastName}
  </code></pre></li>
  <li><p>Add the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields to the entry type’s field layout</p></li>
  <li>Save the entry type</li>
  <li>Update your existing People entries</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>With those changes made, you will now be able to order directly by your Last Name field’s values:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% set entries = craft.entries.section('people').order('lastName asc').limit(0) %}
  </code></pre>
  
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Answers.Text: Oh ok, ya unfortunately these titles we're imported from wordpress so the title tags were already populated and we have 122 `people` so redoing them all is too big of a task. Thanks anyway!
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Answers.Text: @KenyonKowal Gotcha. Just added a new answer that should work for you.
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Answers.Body: <p>Another option is to use the <a href="https://github.com/aelvan/Preparse-Field-Craft" rel="nofollow">Preparse</a> plugin to automatically parse out and store last names in a hidden field.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Install the Preparse plugin</li>
  <li>Create a new “Last Name” field using the Preparse field type</li>
  <li><p>Set the field’s Twig template setting to this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ entry.title|split(' ')|last }}
  </code></pre></li>
  <li><p>Edit the People section’s entry type settings, and add the Last Name field to its field layout.</p></li>
  <li>Edit the People section’s main settings - just re-save them, so that all of your existing entries get updated.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Now when your People entries are saved, the last word in their Title will be copied over to a hidden “Last Name” field, and you can sort by that in your template:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% set entries = craft.entries.section('people').order('lastName asc').limit(0) %}
  </code></pre>
  
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Body: <p>I would like to get the last string of a entry title and order entries based on that. Basically the <code>people</code> title are their full names and I am trying to find their last name and filter based on that, instead of their first name.</p>
  
  <p><code>{% set entries = craft.entries.section('people').order('title').limit(0) %}</code></p>
  
  <p>similar to this <code>entry.title|split(' ')|last</code></p>
  
Tags: <entries><entry><order><set>
Title: Order entries based on last string of title
ThreadText: # Order entries based on last string of title
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-08)
  
  I would like to get the last string of a entry title and order entries based on that. Basically the `people` title are their full names and I am trying to find their last name and filter based on that, instead of their first name.
  
  `{% set entries = craft.entries.section('people').order('title').limit(0) %}`
  
  similar to this `entry.title|split(' ')|last`
  
  **Tags:** entries, entry, order, set
  
  
  ---
  
  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-10-09. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  It’s not possible to do that unless you’ve already got the last word saved somewhere.
  
  Here’s what I would recommend:
  
  * Create two new Plain Text fields - “First Name” and “Last Name”
  * Go to your People section’s entry type settings
  * Uncheck the “Show the Title field?” setting and set the “Title Format” setting to:
  
    ```
    {firstName} {lastName}
  
    ```
  * Add the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields to the entry type’s field layout
  * Save the entry type
  * Update your existing People entries
  
  With those changes made, you will now be able to order directly by your Last Name field’s values:
  
  ```
  {% set entries = craft.entries.section('people').order('lastName asc').limit(0) %}
  
  ```
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Oh ok, ya unfortunately these titles we're imported from wordpress so the title tags were already populated and we have 122 `people` so redoing them all is too big of a task. Thanks anyway!  
  > **username_1**: @username_0 Gotcha. Just added a new answer that should work for you.  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-10-09. Score: 4
  
  Another option is to use the [Preparse](https://github.com/aelvan/Preparse-Field-Craft) plugin to automatically parse out and store last names in a hidden field.
  
  * Install the Preparse plugin
  * Create a new “Last Name” field using the Preparse field type
  * Set the field’s Twig template setting to this:
  
    ```
    {{ entry.title|split(' ')|last }}
  
    ```
  * Edit the People section’s entry type settings, and add the Last Name field to its field layout.
  * Edit the People section’s main settings - just re-save them, so that all of your existing entries get updated.
  
  Now when your People entries are saved, the last word in their Title will be copied over to a hidden “Last Name” field, and you can sort by that in your template:
  
  ```
  {% set entries = craft.entries.section('people').order('lastName asc').limit(0) %}
  
  ```
  
  
  ---
  
  