# How do I apply a plugin to a project from a (shared) applied .gradle file?

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-apply-a-plugin-to-a-project-from-a-shared-applied-gradle-file/7508>\
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**Created:** [February 21, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-apply-a-plugin-to-a-project-from-a-shared-applied-gradle-file/7508 "2013-02-21T02:03:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-apply-a-plugin-to-a-project-from-a-shared-applied-gradle-file/7508/6 "2013-05-31T14:26:00Z")

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Charley, were you able to get this to work? I’m struggling with a very similar solution, but when I omit the quotes in the apply and use the fully qualified classname for my plugin:

```gradle
apply plugin: com.stibo.gradle.plugin.stibodefaults.StiboDefaults

```

I get this error: Could not find property ‘com’ on project ‘:components-mapper’.

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