Wordpress page templates in a directory

Question

I'm trying to organize my page-$slug.php files all inside a folder, i saw in a post that it was possible to store the files inside a directory in the root path of the theme... i tried to store them like this

But the page-termos-e-condicoes.php wasn't recognized.. is there any other way to do it?

Answer 1

The file needs a template header and will only behave as a user-selectable custom page template.

True special templates like page-$slug.php that match the post's slug will only work when they live in the root theme directory.