Custom taxonomies – get_term_id

I have a huge problem I was hoping a clever mind could figure out –?I already spent 2 days on this issue.

I’m using the plugin “More Taxonomies” to create a new tag-“category” called Personas. Everything is working fine, but I cannot to use these tags to look related posts.

What I want is to get the custom taxonomy id of the current post, put that into a variable, and let that variable work as the tag that’s is being looped.

The code looks like this right now (it’s the varible $term_id I need to somehow call dynamically, based on the current post);

<?php
$taxonomy = “‘persona'”;
$term_ids = “($term_id)”;
$post_status = “‘publish'”;
$post_type = “(‘post’, ‘page’, ‘live’)” ;

$query = “SELECT $wpdb->posts.* FROM $wpdb->posts
INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships ON ($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id)
INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON ($wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id)
WHERE 1=1
AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.taxonomy = $taxonomy
AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id IN $term_ids
AND $wpdb->posts.post_type IN $post_type
AND $wpdb->posts.post_status = $post_status
GROUP BY $wpdb->posts.ID
ORDER BY $wpdb->posts.post_date DESC”;

$my_posts=$wpdb->get_results($query);

if ($my_posts) {
foreach($my_posts as $post) if( $post->ID == ”.$thePostID.” ) continue; {
setup_postdata($post);
?>

“
<?php the_post_thumbnail( ‘thumbnail’ ); ?>

<?php }
}
?>

Any help is highly appreciated…

Thanks..