Fix the “No front page content has been created yet.” in Drupal 7 problem

You can hide the “No front page content has been created yet.” in Drupal 7 by adding the following to your local.css:

#first-time {
display: none;
}

Drupal: Sorting by last name given the Title in a link field

preg_match('~([^\s]+)(?:,.*)?$~',$node->field_faculty_link[0]['title'], $match);
$node_field[0]['value'] = $match[0];