Question how do you approve new members?

feel really silly asking this, but im new to this, how do you approve new members?

G'day and welcome to the forum.

There's no such thing as a silly question, however what you're asking is a little out-of-place in this forum. User registration, registration approval and user login/logout is actually not performed by Kunena. Unlike other standalone message boards, like punBB, for example, that have their own user processes for those functions, Kunena uses whatever Joomla uses. So the answer to your question lies in understanding how Joomla works.

I suggest you look for help on these matters by visiting the Joomla help site and, if you cannot find what you are looking for there, try the Joomla forum .

BTW, out of curiosity, what version of Kunena are you using?

You can approve user from backend of the joomla site.
There you can find user manager in control panel or in Main menu -> site -> user manager.

There you can approve your users.