Title: Getting an error while saving snippet
Last modified: March 25, 2021

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# Getting an error while saving snippet

 *  [asrar7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asrar7/)
 * (@asrar7)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-an-error-while-saving-snippet/)
 * Hi,
 * I want to add the following to the snippet but when i try to save and activate
   i get: **An error occurred when saving the snippet**
 * Thank you
 * add_filter(‘woocommerce_valid_order_statuses_for_payment’, ‘allow_payment_of_cancelled_orders’);
   
   function allow_payment_of_cancelled_orders($valid_statuses) { $valid_statuses[]
   = ‘cancelled’; return $valid_statuses; }

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 *  Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * (@bungeshea)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-an-error-while-saving-snippet/#post-14751736)
 * The only thing I can think of is that you are running into a duplicate function
   issue. Rewriting this to use an anonymous function might fix the problem.
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'woocommerce_valid_order_statuses_for_payment', function ( $valid_statuses ) {
       	$valid_statuses[] = 'cancelled';
   
       	return $valid_statuses;
       } );
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-an-error-while-saving-snippet/#post-14751736)
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