Should I disallow(robots.txt) archive/author pages with links already available on the front page? [on hold]

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Published on 2014-08-21T19:19:43Z Indexed on 2014/08/21 22:28 UTC
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I am working on a simple Wordpress blog where when an article is published, it appears on ALL these pages:

  1. Homepage - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary

  2. Parent category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary

  3. Child category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary

  4. Author page - Headline(clickable)

  5. sitemap.xml

I've been told that I should add all author pages to my robots.txt, under disallow, so as search engine bots do not spider /author/* since all links on these pages are available elsewhere.

Is this a good approach or maybe rel=nofollow is better, or maybe I shouldn't worry about this at all?

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