Bounding Box

This is a simple but useful extension to create rectangles and/or circles around selected items. In Inkscape 1.2.1 the option to set some margins around the object were removed, so this extension is even more useful, as it acts a similar way. 

 Select one or more objects 

 

 

 

 Example 2 (multiple objects at once) 

 

 The same can be done with Live Path effects!