Give Joomla Front End Editing Access to a Specific Article.

By default, the Joomla User Group Author has editing access only to articles in which they are the Author. As a result, it is very simple to restrict front end article editing to specific articles by assigning a Joomla Author user to the article.

For example, say you have a user who needs to have editing access to a specific article, but you don’t want that person to be able to edit any other articles.

For details on how to give a Joomla User front end editing permisson to a specific article, click here.

Joomla Tutorial: How to Restrict Access to a Joomla Article

Limit Access to Joomla Menu Items or to Specific Joomla ArticlesYou can restrict access to Joomla Articles. For example, you can create restrictions to menu links, such as links to Joomla menu items like forms, or components, or you can restrict access to category or section lists or blogs. In addition, you can restrict access to individual Joomla articles.